[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] imx6: spl: Reduce SPL limit size in case CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT is enabled

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Wed Sep 18 07:59:22 UTC 2019


Hi Jagan, Breno,

On 17/09/19 09:13, Jagan Teki wrote:
> Hi Breno,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 6:06 PM Breno Matheus Lima <breno.lima at nxp.com> wrote:
>>
>> In case CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT is enabled we need to limit the SPL size to
>> avoid a possible HAB failure event:
>>
>> --------- HAB Event 1 -----------------
>> event data:
>>         0xdb 0x00 0x14 0x42 0x33 0x22 0x33 0x00
>>         0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0f 0x00 0x90 0x70 0x00
>>         0x00 0x01 0x10 0x00
>> STS = HAB_FAILURE (0x33)
>> RSN = HAB_INV_ADDRESS (0x22)
>> CTX = HAB_CTX_TARGET (0x33)
>> ENG = HAB_ENG_ANY (0x00)
>>
>> As explained in Commit 23612534fe0f ("spl: imx6: Provide a SPL_SIZE_LIMIT
>> default") the i.MX6 SPL size limit is 68KB.
>>
>> The ROM code is copying the image size defined in boot data to its
>> respective load address, in case we exceed the OCRAM free region a
>> HAB invalid address failure event is generated.
>>
>> The maximum CSF size is defined in CONFIG_CSF_SIZE, reduce SPL size
>> limit based on this configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Breno Lima <breno.lima at nxp.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/spl_size_limit.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/spl_size_limit.c b/tools/spl_size_limit.c
>> index 98ff491867..8902e30129 100644
>> --- a/tools/spl_size_limit.c
>> +++ b/tools/spl_size_limit.c
>> @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_SIZE_LIMIT
>>         spl_size_limit = CONFIG_SPL_SIZE_LIMIT;
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT) && defined(CONFIG_CSF_SIZE)
>> +       spl_size_limit -= CONFIG_CSF_SIZE;
>> +#endif
> 
> But, if the target enable HAB on SPL the size would be part of SPL
> limit, isn't ?

Indeed - it is not clear to me, too, if it is correct, even if CSF is
added later by the NXP signing tools. The patch reduces significantly
the available space for SPL, I just wondering why just mamoj is
affected. Jagan, does it work without this patch applied ?

Regards,
Stefano

> 
> Just now I have looked at this, since one of my board (imx6_mamoj)
> fails to build.
> 
> Jagan.
> 


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