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[RFC] Common API to retrieve pre-allocated share memory for Transfer List

by Raymond Mao

Hi, I am currently doing research to implement the Transfer List to comply with Arm's firmware handoff spec ( https://github.com/FirmwareHandoff/firmware_handoff) in order to have a standardized handoff approach between different firmware stages during boot. The idea is to create a Transfer List in BL2 and cache it into a pre-allocated memory in SRAM that can be shared between BL2 and BL3x. A prototype currently available is creating APIs under qemu platform code to retrieve the pre-defined memory address (The shared memory region is defined in platform_def.h). But I think we need to define a common API for this purpose to support all platforms. Please share your views or any suggestions. Thanks. Regards, Raymond

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New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware

by scan-admin＠coverity.com

Hi, Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware found with Coverity Scan. 1 new defect(s) introduced to ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware found with Coverity Scan. New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan Showing 1 of 1 defect(s) ** CID 384887: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT) /mbedtls/library/x509.c: 1396 in mbedtls_x509_parse_subject_alt_name() ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *** CID 384887: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT) /mbedtls/library/x509.c: 1396 in mbedtls_x509_parse_subject_alt_name() 1390 if (ret != 0) { 1391 return ret; 1392 } 1393 1394 memset(san, 0, sizeof(mbedtls_x509_subject_alternative_name)); 1395 san->type = MBEDTLS_X509_SAN_OTHER_NAME; >>> CID 384887: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT) >>> Using uninitialized value "other_name". Field "other_name.type_id" is uninitialized when calling "memcpy". [Note: The source code implementation of the function has been overridden by a builtin model.] 1396 memcpy(&san->san.other_name, 1397 &other_name, sizeof(other_name)); 1398 1399 } 1400 break; 1401 /* ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To view the defects in Coverity Scan visit, https://u15810271.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=HRESupC-2F2Czv4BOaCWWCy7my0P…

1 year, 4 months

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[RFC] Proposed location to host the firmware handoff specification.

by Jose Marinho

Hi, Arm worked to draft a firmware handoff [1] specification, evolving it based on community feedback. This activity followed the request of some members of the Arm ecosystem [2]. The spec (still at ALP – feedback/comments welcome!) standardizes how information is propagated between different firmware components during boot. The spec hopes to remove the reliance on bespoke/platform-specific information handoff mechanisms, thus reducing the code maintenance burden. The concept of entry types is present in the spec – these are data structure layouts that carry a specific type of data. New types are meant to be added, following the needs and use-cases of the different communities. Thus, these communities should be empowered to request new types! To enable community contributions, the specification must be hosted in a location that is friendly to change requests. We propose to host the spec in trustedfirmware.org (tf.org). Tf.org hosts several open-source projects and already has an open governance model. TF-A, and the associated community, rely on tf.org, and thus are already well equipped to maintain this specification and keep it up to date. Tf.org is agnostic of any downstream projects that would adopt this specification (e.g. U-boot, EDK2, etc.). We welcome the views of the communities and want to understand if there are any strong objections to what’s being proposed! If anyone has objections, we are happy to consider alternatives and associated trade-offs. Regards [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0135/latest [2] Re: [TF-A] Proposal: TF-A to adopt hand-off blocks (HOBs) for information passing between boot stages - TF-A - lists.trustedfirmware.org<https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.…>

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Canceled event: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu May 4, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been canceled. TF-A Tech Forum Thursday May 4, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Tr… Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)        877 853 5247 US Toll-free        888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h   Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

1 year, 5 months

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Allow platforms to deny CPU power off request

by Varun Wadekar

Hello, We have a use case where we want to deny the CPU power off from a certain PE. The current lib/psci does not provide a way for a platform to do this. We have support to return an error from svc_off, but this does not cover the scenario where svc_off is NULL. There are multiple ways of handling this scenario. 1. Introduce a new platform function to check if CPU_OFF is allowed on the core 2. Return an error code from the pwr_domain_off() handler and unwind the CPU_OFF request 3. Something else. Any suggestions? -Varun

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Canceled event with note: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Apr 20, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been canceled with a note: "The original topic for this TechForum will be held on a future date. No alternative topic has been identified for this session so cancelling." TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Apr 20, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time This session will no longer take place on this date. It will be rescheduled.This slot is now free for another session although nothing has yet been identified.======================================Reserving for a discussion on Signer-id Extraction Design for Manish Badarkhe. More details of this session will be sent closer to the session date.-----------------We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Trusted Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org don.harbin(a)linaro.org moritzf(a)google.com ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

1 year, 5 months

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Deprecation of Arm CryptoCell-712/713 drivers

by Sandrine Bailleux

Hello, This is a courtesy notification that we plan to deprecate Arm CryptoCell-712 and CryptoCell-713 drivers in TF-A release v2.9, with the goal to remove their source code from the tree in the following TF-A release after that. This won't affect any upstream platforms beyond Arm Ltd platforms (under plat/arm/ folder). If you have any concerns with this, please raise them by Monday, April 24th. Best regards, Sandrine

1 year, 5 months

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TF-A with TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT failed when using mbedtls-3.4.0

by Chen-Yu Yang

Hi, I'm using TF-A 2.8 on mt7986 board, enable TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT using mbedtls-3.4.0, TF-A BL2 hanged when loading BL31, it seems that BL2 failed to get correct oid in function get_ext(drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_x509_parser.c) after calling mbedtls_oid_get_numeric_string mbedtls_oid_get_numeric_string in 3.4.0 uses %c to print part of oid, (https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/v3.4.0/library/oid.c#L864) but seems that ATF libc's snprintf doesn't support %c format, which causes mbedtls_oid_get_numeric_string to return incorrect oid oid_str dump in get_ext oid_str=%c.49.6.1.4.1.4128.2100.1 (mbedtls_oid_get_numeric_string) oid_str=1.3.6.1.4.1.4128.2100.1 (TRUSTED_FW_NVCOUNTER_OID) I try to change snprintf format %c to %u in mbedtls_oid_get_numeric_string, TF-A boots successfully Thanks

1 year, 5 months

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Re: Question about the Memory Encryption Engine on FVP

by Sandrine Bailleux

Hi, Concerning the following Fast Model Component: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100964/1121/Fast-Models-components/… This component is already publicly documented although it is not integrated yet into the AEM FVP. The main usage is to identify software mis-programming, where the same Physical address is accessed through more than one Physical Address Space (PAS). As such, it is intended as a development / debugging tool only. If such a mis-programming scenario happened then the memory page corresponding to the accessed physical address would get corrupted. Notice memory encryption is not yet supported in TF-A's SW stacks. You won't find a reference for this feature in TF-A / TF-a-tests just now. Best regards, Sandrine

1 year, 5 months

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Updated invitation: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Apr 20, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been updated Changed: description TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Apr 20, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time This session will no longer take place on this date. It will be rescheduled.This slot is now free for another session although nothing has yet been identified.======================================Reserving for a discussion on Signer-id Extraction Design for Manish Badarkhe. More details of this session will be sent closer to the session date.-----------------We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Trusted Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) 877 853 5247 US Toll-free 888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org don.harbin(a)linaro.org moritzf(a)google.com View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Reply for tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

1 year, 5 months

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