[PATCH v6 15/16] cmd: verify: initial import

Philippe REYNES philippe.reynes at softathome.com
Mon Mar 28 23:01:19 CEST 2022


Hi Simon,


Le 28/03/2022 à 08:35, Simon Glass a écrit :
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 09:53, Philippe REYNES
> <philippe.reynes at softathome.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>>
>> Le 03/03/2022 à 04:37, Simon Glass a écrit :
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 07:58, Philippe Reynes
>>> <philippe.reynes at softathome.com> wrote:
>>>> Add the command verify that check the signature of
>>>> an image with the pre-load header. If the check
>>>> succeed, the u-boot env variable 'loadaddr_verified'
>>>> is set to the address of the image (without the header).
>>>>
>>>> It allows to run such commands:
>>>> tftp script.img && verify $loadaddr && source $loadaddr_verified
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes at softathome.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    cmd/Kconfig  |  7 +++++++
>>>>    cmd/Makefile |  1 +
>>>>    cmd/verify.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
>>>>    create mode 100644 cmd/verify.c
>>>>
>>> Using the 'verify' command seems a bit vague. Could it be a
>>> sub-command of bootm perhaps?
>>
>> The command verify may be used with any binary (script, video firmware,
>> .....).
>> So a lot of binaries that are not launched by bootm.
>> I think that it is not "logic" to used a bootm subcommand.
>> But we could use another name if you want.
>> For example : pre_load_verify ?
> I see. Well, I suppose this is a boot loader, so 'verify' would be
> expected to mean verifying an image or something to boot, so this
> seems reasonable to me. But I do like the idea of putting pre_load in
> there somewhere if you can, since we do most other verification as
> part of the 'bootm' command. Up to you.


I have sent a v8 where I remove the command pre_load_verify,
and add the subcommand preload to bootm.


> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Regards,
> Simon

Regards,

Philippe




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