[PATCH] ARM: imx: hab: panic on authentication failure

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Sat May 30 20:31:29 CEST 2020


Hi Marek,

[Adding Breno]

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 3:29 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Instead of hang()ing the system and thus disallowing any automated
> recovery possibility from a HAB authentication failure, panic() .
> The panic() function can be configured to hang() the system after
> printing an error message, however the default is to reset the
> system instead.
>
> This allows redundant boot to work correctly. In case the primary
> or secondary image cannot be authenticated, the system reboots and
> bootrom can try to start the other one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Cc: NXP i.MX U-Boot Team <uboot-imx at nxp.com>
> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>

This is a better behavior indeed:

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>


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