[PATCH v6 06/15] test: dm: ecdsa.c: clean this test as software ecdsa is now implemented

Raymond Mao raymondmaoca at gmail.com
Mon May 25 17:22:29 CEST 2026


Hi Philippe,

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM Philippe Reynes
<philippe.reynes at softathome.com> wrote:
>
> The test ecdsa was done when ecdsa was only supported by hardware.
> So it wasn't possible to test ecdsa on sandbox, and there is a test
> to check that ecdsa is not supported on sandbox.
> Now, there is a software implementation of ecdsa. So we add a test
> to verify that ecdsa_verify may be used on sandbox.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes at softathome.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - initial version
> v3:
> - no change
> v4:
> - add a test that use ecdsa_verify
> v5:
> - change secp256r1 to ecdsa256
> - check that checksum and crypto are not null
> v6:
> - update commit message
> - remove fdt_strerror in macro CHECK
> - return ENOMEM when malloc fails
> - add a define FDT_MAX_SIZE to avoid hardcoded value
>
>  test/dm/ecdsa.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/test/dm/ecdsa.c b/test/dm/ecdsa.c
> index d7eac7115f7..04c0f83e929 100644
> --- a/test/dm/ecdsa.c
> +++ b/test/dm/ecdsa.c
> @@ -3,36 +3,124 @@
>  #include <crypto/ecdsa-uclass.h>
>  #include <dm.h>
>  #include <dm/test.h>
> +#include <malloc.h>
>  #include <test/ut.h>
>  #include <u-boot/ecdsa.h>
>
> +#define FDT_MAX_SIZE           512
> +
> +#define CHECK(op) ({                                                           \
> +               int err = op;                                                   \
> +               if (err < 0) {                                                  \
> +                       printf("%s: function %s returns an error (%d)\n",       \
> +                              __func__, #op, err);                             \
> +                       return err;                                             \
> +               }                                                               \
> +                                                                               \
> +               err;                                                            \
> +       })
> +
> +static int set_fdt_ecdsa_point(char *fdt, char *name, const char *data, size_t len)
> +{
> +       char *value = NULL;
> +       int ret = 0;
> +
> +       if (!fdt || !name || !data) {
> +               ret = -EINVAL;
> +               goto out;
> +       }
> +
> +       value = malloc(len / 2);
> +       if (!value) {
> +               ret = -ENOMEM;
> +               goto out;
> +       }
> +
> +       ret = hex2bin(value, data, len / 2);
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto out;
> +
> +       ret = fdt_property(fdt, name, value, len / 2);
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto out;
> +
> + out:
> +       free(value);
> +       return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int create_fdt_with_ecdsa_key(char *fdt, size_t size,
> +                                    const char *name, const char *curve,
> +                                    const char *x, const char *y)
> +{
> +       CHECK(fdt_create(fdt, size));
> +       CHECK(fdt_finish_reservemap(fdt));
> +       CHECK(fdt_begin_node(fdt, ""));
> +       CHECK(fdt_begin_node(fdt, "signature"));
> +       CHECK(fdt_begin_node(fdt, name));
> +       CHECK(fdt_property_string(fdt, "algo", "sha256,ecdsa256"));
> +       CHECK(set_fdt_ecdsa_point(fdt, "ecdsa,y-point", y, strlen(y)));
> +       CHECK(set_fdt_ecdsa_point(fdt, "ecdsa,x-point", x, strlen(x)));
> +       CHECK(fdt_property_string(fdt, "ecdsa,curve", curve));
> +       CHECK(fdt_property_string(fdt, "key-name-hint", name));
> +       CHECK(fdt_end_node(fdt)); /* name */
> +       CHECK(fdt_end_node(fdt)); /* "signature" */
> +       CHECK(fdt_end_node(fdt)); /* "" */
> +       CHECK(fdt_finish(fdt));
> +       CHECK(fdt_pack(fdt));
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Basic test of the ECDSA uclass and ecdsa_verify()
>   *
> - * ECDSA implementations in u-boot are hardware-dependent. Until we have a
> - * software implementation that can be compiled into the sandbox, all we can
> - * test is the uclass support.
> + * ECDSA software implementation is tested in another test,
> + * so we only check that the class UCLASS_ECDSA may be used.
>   *
> - * The uclass_get() test is redundant since ecdsa_verify() would also fail. We
> - * run both functions in order to isolate the cause more clearly. i.e. is
> - * ecdsa_verify() failing because the UCLASS is absent/broken?
> + * The data used in this test come from RFC6979
>   */
>  static int dm_test_ecdsa_verify(struct unit_test_state *uts)
>  {
>         struct uclass *ucp;
> +       const char *full_name = "sha256,ecdsa256";
> +       const char *name = "key-ecdsa-256";
> +       const char *curve = "prime256v1";
> +       const char *x = "60FED4BA255A9D31C961EB74C6356D68C049B8923B61FA6CE669622E60F29FB6";
> +       const char *y = "7903FE1008B8BC99A41AE9E95628BC64F2F1B20C2D7E9F5177A3C294D4462299";
> +       const char *r = "EFD48B2AACB6A8FD1140DD9CD45E81D69D2C877B56AAF991C34D0EA84EAF3716";
> +       const char *s = "F7CB1C942D657C41D436C7A1B6E29F65F3E900DBB9AFF4064DC4AB2F843ACDA8";
> +       uint8_t sig[64];

s/uint8_t/u8

Raymond

> +       char fdt[FDT_MAX_SIZE];
>
> -       struct checksum_algo algo = {
> -               .checksum_len = 256,
> +       struct image_region region[] = {
> +               {
> +                       .data = "sample",
> +                       .size = strlen("sample"),
> +               },
>         };
>
>         struct image_sign_info info = {
> -               .checksum = &algo,
> +               .checksum = image_get_checksum_algo(full_name),
> +               .crypto = image_get_crypto_algo(full_name),
> +               .fdt_blob = fdt,
>         };
>
> +       ut_assertnonnull(info.checksum);
> +       ut_assertnonnull(info.crypto);
> +
> +       /* create a fdt with the public key */
> +       ut_asserteq(0, create_fdt_with_ecdsa_key(fdt, sizeof(fdt), name, curve, x, y));
> +
> +       /* prepare the signature */
> +       ut_asserteq(0, hex2bin(sig +  0, r, strlen(r) / 2));
> +       ut_asserteq(0, hex2bin(sig + 32, s, strlen(s) / 2));
> +
>         ut_assertok(uclass_get(UCLASS_ECDSA, &ucp));
>         ut_assertnonnull(ucp);
> -       ut_asserteq(-ENODEV, ecdsa_verify(&info, NULL, 0, NULL, 0));
> +       ut_asserteq(0, ecdsa_verify(&info, region, 1, sig, sizeof(sig)));
>
>         return 0;
>  }
> +
>  DM_TEST(dm_test_ecdsa_verify, UTF_SCAN_PDATA | UTF_SCAN_FDT);
> --
> 2.43.0
>


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