[PATCH v6 3/9] capsule: authenticate: Add capsule public key in platform's dtb

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Aug 2 15:34:14 CEST 2023


Hi Sughosh,

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 06:52, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sughosh,
>
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 11:40, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > The EFI capsule authentication logic in u-boot expects the public key
> > in the form of an EFI Signature List(ESL) to be provided as part of
> > the platform's dtb. Currently, the embedding of the ESL file into the
> > dtb needs to be done manually.
> >
> > Add a signature node in the u-boot dtsi file and include the public
> > key through the capsule-key property. This file is per architecture,
> > and is currently being added for sandbox and arm architectures. It
> > will have to be added for other architectures which need to enable
> > capsule authentication support.
> >
> > The path to the ESL file is specified through the
> > CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_ESL_FILE symbol.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > Changes since V5:
> > * None
> >
> >  arch/arm/dts/u-boot.dtsi     | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  arch/sandbox/dts/u-boot.dtsi | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig       |  9 +++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> >  create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..4f31da4521
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> > +/**
> > + * Devicetree file with miscellaneous nodes that will be included
> > + * at build time into the DTB. Currently being used for including
> > + * capsule related information.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_AUTHENTICATE
> > +/ {
> > +       signature {
> > +               capsule-key = /incbin/(CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_ESL_FILE);
> > +       };
> > +};
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_AUTHENTICATE */

Ilias mentioned that this binding can cause problems if it not
upstream, causing the platform to fail validation. So we need to agree
a binding for it in dt-schema. Can you send a patch to we can discuss
it there?

Regards,
Simon


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