1. 04 Dec, 2019 1 commit
    • Samuel Holland's avatar
      Reduce space lost to object alignment · ebd6efae
      Samuel Holland authored
      
      
      Currently, sections within .text/.rodata/.data/.bss are emitted in the
      order they are seen by the linker. This leads to wasted space, when a
      section with a larger alignment follows one with a smaller alignment.
      We can avoid this wasted space by sorting the sections.
      
      To take full advantage of this, we must disable generation of common
      symbols, so "common" data can be sorted along with the rest of .bss.
      
      An example of the improvement, from `make DEBUG=1 PLAT=sun50i_a64 bl31`:
        .text   => no change
        .rodata => 16 bytes saved
        .data   => 11 bytes saved
        .bss    => 576 bytes saved
      
      As a side effect, the addition of `-fno-common` in TF_CFLAGS makes it
      easier to spot bugs in header files.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
      Change-Id: I073630a9b0b84e7302a7a500d4bb4b547be01d51
      ebd6efae
  2. 04 Jan, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Sanitise includes across codebase · 09d40e0e
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.
      
      The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:
      
      - include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
      - include/lib/el3_runtime/${ARCH}
      
      The reason for this change is that having a global namespace for
      includes isn't a good idea. It defeats one of the advantages of having
      folders and it introduces problems that are sometimes subtle (because
      you may not know the header you are actually including if there are two
      of them).
      
      For example, this patch had to be created because two headers were
      called the same way: e0ea0928 ("Fix gpio includes of mt8173 platform
      to avoid collision."). More recently, this patch has had similar
      problems: 46f9b2c3 ("drivers: add tzc380 support").
      
      This problem was introduced in commit 4ecca339
      
       ("Move include and
      source files to logical locations"). At that time, there weren't too
      many headers so it wasn't a real issue. However, time has shown that
      this creates problems.
      
      Platforms that want to preserve the way they include headers may add the
      removed paths to PLAT_INCLUDES, but this is discouraged.
      
      Change-Id: I39dc53ed98f9e297a5966e723d1936d6ccf2fc8f
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      09d40e0e
  3. 11 Jul, 2018 2 commits
  4. 27 Feb, 2018 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Add comments about mismatched TCR_ELx and xlat tables · 883d1b5d
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      When the MMU is enabled and the translation tables are mapped, data
      read/writes to the translation tables are made using the attributes
      specified in the translation tables themselves. However, the MMU
      performs table walks with the attributes specified in TCR_ELx. They are
      completely independent, so special care has to be taken to make sure
      that they are the same.
      
      This has to be done manually because it is not practical to have a test
      in the code. Such a test would need to know the virtual memory region
      that contains the translation tables and check that for all of the
      tables the attributes match the ones in TCR_ELx. As the tables may not
      even be mapped at all, this isn't a test that can be made generic.
      
      The flags used by enable_mmu_xxx() have been moved to the same header
      where the functions are.
      
      Also, some comments in the linker scripts related to the translation
      tables have been fixed.
      
      Change-Id: I1754768bffdae75f53561b1c4a5baf043b45a304
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      883d1b5d
  5. 29 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Replace magic numbers in linkerscripts by PAGE_SIZE · a2aedac2
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      When defining different sections in linker scripts it is needed to align
      them to multiples of the page size. In most linker scripts this is done
      by aligning to the hardcoded value 4096 instead of PAGE_SIZE.
      
      This may be confusing when taking a look at all the codebase, as 4096
      is used in some parts that aren't meant to be a multiple of the page
      size.
      
      Change-Id: I36c6f461c7782437a58d13d37ec8b822a1663ec1
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      a2aedac2
  6. 03 May, 2017 1 commit
  7. 31 Mar, 2017 1 commit
    • Douglas Raillard's avatar
      Add support for GCC stack protection · 51faada7
      Douglas Raillard authored
      
      
      Introduce new build option ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR. It enables
      compilation of all BL images with one of the GCC -fstack-protector-*
      options.
      
      A new platform function plat_get_stack_protector_canary() is introduced.
      It returns a value that is used to initialize the canary for stack
      corruption detection. Returning a random value will prevent an attacker
      from predicting the value and greatly increase the effectiveness of the
      protection.
      
      A message is printed at the ERROR level when a stack corruption is
      detected.
      
      To be effective, the global data must be stored at an address
      lower than the base of the stacks. Failure to do so would allow an
      attacker to overwrite the canary as part of an attack which would void
      the protection.
      
      FVP implementation of plat_get_stack_protector_canary is weak as
      there is no real source of entropy on the FVP. It therefore relies on a
      timer's value, which could be predictable.
      
      Change-Id: Icaaee96392733b721fa7c86a81d03660d3c1bc06
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      51faada7
  8. 06 Feb, 2017 1 commit
    • Douglas Raillard's avatar
      Introduce unified API to zero memory · 308d359b
      Douglas Raillard authored
      
      
      Introduce zeromem_dczva function on AArch64 that can handle unaligned
      addresses and make use of DC ZVA instruction to zero a whole block at a
      time. This zeroing takes place directly in the cache to speed it up
      without doing external memory access.
      
      Remove the zeromem16 function on AArch64 and replace it with an alias to
      zeromem. This zeromem16 function is now deprecated.
      
      Remove the 16-bytes alignment constraint on __BSS_START__ in
      firmware-design.md as it is now not mandatory anymore (it used to comply
      with zeromem16 requirements).
      
      Change the 16-bytes alignment constraints in SP min's linker script to a
      8-bytes alignment constraint as the AArch32 zeromem implementation is now
      more efficient on 8-bytes aligned addresses.
      
      Introduce zero_normalmem and zeromem helpers in platform agnostic header
      that are implemented this way:
      * AArch32:
      	* zero_normalmem: zero using usual data access
      	* zeromem: alias for zero_normalmem
      * AArch64:
      	* zero_normalmem: zero normal memory  using DC ZVA instruction
      	                  (needs MMU enabled)
      	* zeromem: zero using usual data access
      
      Usage guidelines: in most cases, zero_normalmem should be preferred.
      
      There are 2 scenarios where zeromem (or memset) must be used instead:
      * Code that must run with MMU disabled (which means all memory is
        considered device memory for data accesses).
      * Code that fills device memory with null bytes.
      
      Optionally, the following rule can be applied if performance is
      important:
      * Code zeroing small areas (few bytes) that are not secrets should use
        memset to take advantage of compiler optimizations.
      
        Note: Code zeroing security-related critical information should use
        zero_normalmem/zeromem instead of memset to avoid removal by
        compilers' optimizations in some cases or misbehaving versions of GCC.
      
      Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#408
      
      Change-Id: Iafd9663fc1070413c3e1904e54091cf60effaa82
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      308d359b
  9. 08 Jul, 2016 2 commits
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      Introduce SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA build flag · 5d1c104f
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
      At the moment, all BL images share a similar memory layout: they start
      with their code section, followed by their read-only data section.
      The two sections are contiguous in memory. Therefore, the end of the
      code section and the beginning of the read-only data one might share
      a memory page. This forces both to be mapped with the same memory
      attributes. As the code needs to be executable, this means that the
      read-only data stored on the same memory page as the code are
      executable as well. This could potentially be exploited as part of
      a security attack.
      
      This patch introduces a new build flag called
      SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA, which isolates the code and read-only data
      on separate memory pages. This in turn allows independent control of
      the access permissions for the code and read-only data.
      
      This has an impact on memory footprint, as padding bytes need to be
      introduced between the code and read-only data to ensure the
      segragation of the two. To limit the memory cost, the memory layout
      of the read-only section has been changed in this case.
      
       - When SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA=0, the layout is unchanged, i.e.
         the read-only section still looks like this (padding omitted):
      
         |        ...        |
         +-------------------+
         | Exception vectors |
         +-------------------+
         |  Read-only data   |
         +-------------------+
         |       Code        |
         +-------------------+ BLx_BASE
      
         In this case, the linker script provides the limits of the whole
         read-only section.
      
       - When SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA=1, the exception vectors and
         read-only data are swapped, such that the code and exception
         vectors are contiguous, followed by the read-only data. This
         gives the following new layout (padding omitted):
      
         |        ...        |
         +-------------------+
         |  Read-only data   |
         +-------------------+
         | Exception vectors |
         +-------------------+
         |       Code        |
         +-------------------+ BLx_BASE
      
         In this case, the linker script now exports 2 sets of addresses
         instead: the limits of the code and the limits of the read-only
         data. Refer to the Firmware Design guide for more details. This
         provides platform code with a finer-grained view of the image
         layout and allows it to map these 2 regions with the appropriate
         access permissions.
      
      Note that SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA applies to all BL images.
      
      Change-Id: I936cf80164f6b66b6ad52b8edacadc532c935a49
      5d1c104f
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      BL1: Add linker symbol identifying end of ROM content · c02fcc4a
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
      This patch adds a new linker symbol in BL1's linker script named
      '__BL1_ROM_END__', which marks the end of BL1's ROM content. This
      covers BL1's code, read-only data and read-write data to relocate
      in Trusted SRAM. The address of this new linker symbol is exported
      to C code through the 'BL1_ROM_END' macro.
      
      The section related to linker symbols in the Firmware Design guide
      has been updated and improved.
      
      Change-Id: I5c442ff497c78d865ffba1d7d044511c134e11c7
      c02fcc4a
  10. 25 Jun, 2015 1 commit
    • Juan Castillo's avatar
      TBB: add authentication framework · 05799ae0
      Juan Castillo authored
      This patch adds the authentication framework that will be used as
      the base to implement Trusted Board Boot in the Trusted Firmware.
      The framework comprises the following modules:
      
      - Image Parser Module (IPM)
      
          This module is responsible for interpreting images, check
          their integrity and extract authentication information from
          them during Trusted Board Boot.
      
          The module currently supports three types of images i.e.
          raw binaries, X509v3 certificates and any type specific to
          a platform. An image parser library must be registered for
          each image type (the only exception is the raw image parser,
          which is included in the main module by default).
      
          Each parser library (if used) must export a structure in a
          specific linker section which contains function pointers to:
      
              1. Initialize the library
              2. Check the integrity of the image type supported by
                 the library
              3. Extract authentication information from the image
      
      - Cryptographic Module (CM)
      
          This module is responsible for verifying digital signatures
          and hashes. It relies on an external cryptographic library
          to perform the cryptographic operations.
      
          To register a cryptographic library, the library must use the
          REGISTER_CRYPTO_LIB macro, passing function pointers to:
      
              1. Initialize the library
              2. Verify a digital signature
              3. Verify a hash
      
          Failing to register a cryptographic library will generate
          a build time error.
      
      - Authentication Module (AM)
      
          This module provides methods to authenticate an image, like
          hash comparison or digital signatures. It uses the image parser
          module to extract authentication parameters, the crypto module
          to perform cryptographic operations and the Chain of Trust to
          authenticate the images.
      
          The Chain of Trust (CoT) is a data structure that defines the
          dependencies between images and the authentication methods
          that must be followed to authenticate an image.
      
      The Chain of Trust, when added, must provide a header file named
      cot_def.h with the following definitions:
      
      - COT_MAX_VERIFIED_PARAMS
      
          Integer value indicating the maximum number of authentication
          parameters an image can present. This value will be used by the
          authentication module to allocate the memory required to load
          the parameters in the image descriptor.
      
      Change-Id: Ied11bd5cd410e1df8767a1df23bb720ce7e58178
      05799ae0
  11. 22 Jan, 2015 1 commit
    • Soby Mathew's avatar
      Remove coherent memory from the BL memory maps · ab8707e6
      Soby Mathew authored
      This patch extends the build option `USE_COHERENT_MEMORY` to
      conditionally remove coherent memory from the memory maps of
      all boot loader stages. The patch also adds necessary
      documentation for coherent memory removal in firmware-design,
      porting and user guides.
      
      Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#106
      
      Change-Id: I260e8768c6a5c2efc402f5804a80657d8ce38773
      ab8707e6
  12. 19 Sep, 2014 1 commit
    • Juan Castillo's avatar
      Fix LENGTH attribute value in linker scripts · d7fbf132
      Juan Castillo authored
      This patch fixes the incorrect value of the LENGTH attribute in
      the linker scripts. This attribute must define the memory size, not
      the limit address.
      
      Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#252
      
      Change-Id: I328c38b9ec502debe12046a8912d7dfc54610c46
      d7fbf132
  13. 20 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Soby Mathew's avatar
      Introduce framework for CPU specific operations · 9b476841
      Soby Mathew authored
      This patch introduces a framework which will allow CPUs to perform
      implementation defined actions after a CPU reset, during a CPU or cluster power
      down, and when a crash occurs. CPU specific reset handlers have been implemented
      in this patch. Other handlers will be implemented in subsequent patches.
      
      Also moved cpu_helpers.S to the new directory lib/cpus/aarch64/.
      
      Change-Id: I1ca1bade4d101d11a898fb30fea2669f9b37b956
      9b476841
  14. 12 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Juan Castillo's avatar
      FVP: apply new naming conventions to memory regions · 637ebd2e
      Juan Castillo authored
      Secure ROM at address 0x0000_0000 is defined as FVP_TRUSTED_ROM
      Secure RAM at address 0x0400_0000 is defined as FVP_TRUSTED_SRAM
      Secure RAM at address 0x0600_0000 is defined as FVP_TRUSTED_DRAM
      
      BLn_BASE and BLn_LIMIT definitions have been updated and are based on
      these new memory regions.
      
      The available memory for each bootloader in the linker script is
      defined by BLn_BASE and BLn_LIMIT, instead of the complete memory
      region.
      
      TZROM_BASE/SIZE and TZRAM_BASE/SIZE are no longer required as part of
      the platform porting.
      
      FVP common definitions are defined in fvp_def.h while platform_def.h
      contains exclusively (with a few exceptions) the definitions that are
      mandatory in the porting guide. Therefore, platform_def.h now includes
      fvp_def.h instead of the other way around.
      
      Porting guide has been updated to reflect these changes.
      
      Change-Id: I39a6088eb611fc4a347db0db4b8f1f0417dbab05
      637ebd2e
  15. 23 May, 2014 3 commits
    • Dan Handley's avatar
      Split platform.h into separate headers · 5f0cdb05
      Dan Handley authored
      Previously, platform.h contained many declarations and definitions
      used for different purposes. This file has been split so that:
      
      * Platform definitions used by common code that must be defined
        by the platform are now in platform_def.h. The exact include
        path is exported through $PLAT_INCLUDES in the platform makefile.
      
      * Platform definitions specific to the FVP platform are now in
        /plat/fvp/fvp_def.h.
      
      * Platform API declarations specific to the FVP platform are now
        in /plat/fvp/fvp_private.h.
      
      * The remaining platform API declarations that must be ported by
        each platform are still in platform.h but this file has been
        moved to /include/plat/common since this can be shared by all
        platforms.
      
      Change-Id: Ieb3bb22fbab3ee8027413c6b39a783534aee474a
      5f0cdb05
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      Make the memory layout more flexible · a37255a2
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
      Currently the platform code gets to define the base address of each
      boot loader image. However, the linker scripts couteract this
      flexibility by enforcing a fixed overall layout of the different
      images. For example, they require that the BL3-1 image sits below
      the BL2 image. Choosing BL3-1 and BL2 base addresses in such a way
      that it violates this constraint makes the build fail at link-time.
      
      This patch requires the platform code to now define a limit address
      for each image. The linker scripts check that the image fits within
      these bounds so they don't rely anymore on the position of a given
      image in regard to the others.
      
      Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#163
      
      Change-Id: I8c108646825da19a6a8dfb091b613e1dd4ae133c
      a37255a2
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      Make BL1 RO and RW base addresses configurable · 4f59d835
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
      BL1 RO and RW base address used to be fixed, respectively to the first
      address of the Trusted ROM and the first address of the Trusted RAM.
      
      Introduce new platform defines to configure the BL1 RO and RW base
      addresses.
      
      Change-Id: If26616513a47798593a4bb845a4b0fb37c867cd6
      4f59d835
  16. 26 Mar, 2014 1 commit
    • Andrew Thoelke's avatar
      Use --gc-sections during link · dccc537a
      Andrew Thoelke authored
      All common functions are being built into all binary images,
      whether or not they are actually used. This change enables the
      use of -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
      in the compiler and linker to remove unused code and data from
      the images.
      
      Change-Id: Ia9f78c01054ac4fa15d145af38b88a0d6fb7d409
      dccc537a
  17. 20 Mar, 2014 1 commit
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      Specify image entry in linker script · 9f98aa1a
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      At present, the entry point for each BL image is specified via the
      Makefiles and provided on the command line to the linker. When using a
      link script the entry point should rather be specified via the ENTRY()
      directive in the link script.
      
      This patch updates linker scripts of all BL images to specify the entry
      point using the ENTRY() directive. It also removes the --entry flag
      passed to the linker through Makefile.
      
      Fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#66
      
      Change-Id: I1369493ebbacea31885b51185441f6b628cf8da0
      9f98aa1a
  18. 20 Feb, 2014 2 commits
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Factor out translation table setup in ARM FVP port · a0cd989d
      Achin Gupta authored
      This patch factors out the ARM FVP specific code to create MMU
      translation tables so that it is possible for a boot loader stage to
      create a different set of tables instead of using the default ones.
      The default translation tables are created with the assumption that
      the calling boot loader stage executes out of secure SRAM. This might
      not be true for the BL3_2 stage in the future.
      
      A boot loader stage can define the `fill_xlation_tables()` function as
      per its requirements. It returns a reference to the level 1
      translation table which is used by the common platform code to setup
      the TTBR_EL3.
      
      This patch is a temporary solution before a larger rework of
      translation table creation logic is introduced.
      
      Change-Id: I09a075d5da16822ee32a411a9dbe284718fb4ff6
      a0cd989d
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Rework BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface · e4d084ea
      Achin Gupta authored
      This patch reworks BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface by introducing a
      composite structure (bl31_args) that holds the superset of information
      that needs to be passed from BL2 to BL3-1.
      
        - The extents of secure memory available to BL3-1
        - The extents of memory available to BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and
          BL3-3
        - Information to execute BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and BL3-3 images
      
      This patch also introduces a new platform API (bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr)
      that needs to be implemented by the platform code to export reference to
      bl31_args structure which has been allocated in platform-defined memory.
      
      The platform will initialize the extents of memory available to BL3-3
      during early platform setup in bl31_args structure. This obviates the
      need for bl2_get_ns_mem_layout platform API.
      
      BL2 calls the bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr function to get a reference to
      bl31_args structure. It uses the 'bl33_meminfo' field of this structure
      to load the BL3-3 image. It sets the entry point information for the
      BL3-3 image in the 'bl33_image_info' field of this structure. The
      reference to this structure is passed to the BL3-1 image.
      
      Also fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#25
      
      Change-Id: Ic36426196dd5ebf89e60ff42643bed01b3500517
      e4d084ea
  19. 17 Feb, 2014 2 commits
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Setup VBAR_EL3 incrementally · b739f22a
      Achin Gupta authored
      This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
      'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
      use the more complex 'runtime_exceptions'. It is initialised to
      'runtime_exceptions' once this is done.
      
      This patch also moves all exception vectors into a '.vectors' section
      and modifies linker scripts to place all such sections together. This
      will minimize space wastage from alignment restrictions.
      
      Change-Id: I8c3e596ea3412c8bd582af9e8d622bb1cb2e049d
      b739f22a
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      Move translation tables into separate section · 74cbb839
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      This patch moves the translation tables into their own section. This
      saves space that would otherwise have been lost in padding due to page
      table alignment constraints. The BL31 and BL32 bases have been
      consequently adjusted.
      
      Change-Id: Ibd65ae8a5ce4c4ea9a71a794c95bbff40dc63e65
      74cbb839
  20. 17 Jan, 2014 1 commit
  21. 05 Dec, 2013 2 commits
    • Dan Handley's avatar
      Enable third party contributions · ab2d31ed
      Dan Handley authored
      - Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.
      
      - Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.
      
      Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5
      ab2d31ed
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      Various improvements/cleanups on the linker scripts · 8d69a03f
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
        - Check at link-time that bootloader images will fit in memory
          at run time and that they won't overlap each other.
        - Remove text and rodata orphan sections.
        - Define new linker symbols to remove the need for platform setup
          code to know the order of sections.
        - Reduce the size of the raw binary images by cutting some sections
          out of the disk image and allocating them at load time, whenever
          possible.
        - Rework alignment constraints on sections.
        - Remove unused linker symbols.
        - Homogenize linker symbols names across all BLs.
        - Add some comments in the linker scripts.
      
      Change-Id: I47a328af0ccc7c8ab47fcc0dc6e7dd26160610b9
      8d69a03f
  22. 25 Oct, 2013 1 commit