[U-Boot] Using CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Claudius,

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently looking into variable flags in order to make some
> variables read-only for secure boot.
> 
> The idea is that the u-boot binary is signed, while the environment
> file/partition is not. So the built-in default environment of u-boot
> can be trusted, while the external environment cannot. The assumption
> is that those flags can be used to customize the validation when the
> external environment is loaded or scripts/commands are executed.
> 
> From the '/README' I gather that the access attributes can be any of
> "any", "read-only", "write-once" or "change-default".
> 
> I first tried to restrict the variables by choosing 'read-only', but
> apparently this applies to the internal environment as well, and now
> those variables are not loaded from the internal environment.
> 
> Then I tried 'write-once', this worked now as expected from within
> u-boot, but I could modify the environment from the linux userspace
> via fw_setenv and those changes appear in u-boot as well. The same for
> 'change-default'.
> 
> Is there another way to fill the internal environment variable hash
> table, so that 'read-only' works as expected?
> 
> Heiko wrote some patches that change the behavior of the environment
> loading so that the internal environment is loaded first before the
> external environment. This way 'write-once' should work as expected,
> but I think 'read-only' should work that way already and we are
> missing something here.

I think that Wolfgang had a long discussion with Takahiro AKASHI (both
CC'ed) about similar problem with u-boot envs.

For example:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1158770/

> 
> Thanks,
> Claudius
> 



Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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