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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2012-11-30 13:01:17 +0000
committerAlbert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>2013-01-10 22:21:47 +0100
commit06fd853890f23491605bfd6c9ab0116b79e15aaa (patch)
tree7e780c8b3600ef37907e54ddfa46db177624092a /README
parenteae78c3406e8b53950ab716567157aa836a5f398 (diff)
arm: Add CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT to delay environment loading
This option delays loading of the environment until later, so that only the default environment will be available to U-Boot. This can address the security risk of untrusted data being used during boot. Any time you load untrusted data you expose yourself to a bug in the code. The attacker gets to choose the data so can sometimes carefully craft it to exploit a bug. We try to avoid touching user-controlled data during a verified boot unless strictly necessary. Since the default environment is good enough in this case (or you would just change it), this gets around the problem by just not loading the environment. When CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT is defined, it is convenient to have a run-time way of enabling loading of the environment. Add this to the fdt as /config/delay-environment. Note: This patch depends on http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/194342/ Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
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@@ -2378,6 +2378,15 @@ CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
run-time determined information about the hardware to the
environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
+ CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
+
+ Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
+ intialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
+ that so that the environment is not available until
+ explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
+ this is instead controlled by the value of
+ /config/load-environment.
+
- DataFlash Support:
CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH