ESP_FAULT_ASSERT(C) was silently deleted by the optimizer when C is a cached
flag/status already proven by a preceding `if (!C) return/goto`: the compiler
folds C to a constant and drops all three checks, removing the fault-injection
protection with no warning.
ECDSA based Secure Boot V2 is not functional for certain input vectors on
ESP32-C5/C61/H2/P4 and on the preview targets ESP32-H4/H21. RSA based Secure
Boot V2 is the recommended scheme where the SoC supports it. This issue will be
fixed in a future hardware ECO revision; more details will be shared through the
hardware errata document.
A new hidden Kconfig option SECURE_BOOT_V2_ECDSA_INSECURE marks the affected
mass-production SoCs (ESP32-C5/C61/H2/P4). On these SoCs, when hardware Secure
Boot V2 is enabled, the ECDSA (V2) signing scheme is no longer offered by
default; it must be turned on explicitly via SECURE_BOOT_V2_FORCE_ENABLE_ECDSA
under "Allow potentially insecure options" (CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT_INSECURE). App
signing without hardware Secure Boot is not affected. Note that ESP32-C61 has no
RSA based Secure Boot V2, so it has no Secure Boot scheme enabled by default.
The preview targets ESP32-H4 and ESP32-H21 mark ECDSA Secure Boot V2 as not
supported in their SoC capabilities instead of using the option above. As
ESP32-H4 has no other Secure Boot V2 scheme, Secure Boot is disabled entirely on
it; ESP32-H21 retains RSA based Secure Boot V2.
The security documentation keeps the ECDSA Secure Boot V2 content visible and
adds a warning describing the limitation (including that ECDSA Secure Boot V2 on
ESP32-C61 is not recommended for production). CI apps that exercise ECDSA Secure
Boot V2 on the affected SoCs set CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT_V2_FORCE_ENABLE_ECDSA
accordingly.
- Using PMA, the TEE IRAM is marked as R/X while TEE DRAM is marked as R/W.
Moving the internal memory secure service call table from DRAM to IRAM
makes it immutable.
- Fix intermittent TEE stack underflow test failures
- Fix out-of-bounds access Coverity report from the attestation
component
- Add appropriate checks and asserts for TEE flash memory regions'
sizes
- Increased the TEE stack when secure boot is enabled
- Also, generate a build error when the generated TEE binary image size is
greater than the TEE partition size
- Also fixed an issue where NewLib ROM APIs, when called from TEE, were
using the syscall table located in the REE SRAM. This could be abused
as an attack vector to invoke illegal functions from the TEE.
To prevent this, the syscall table is now switched to the TEE-specific
copy during every M-U mode transition.
Currently, REE SPI flash HAL operations are routed as service calls to TEE,
but the TEE implementation incorrectly uses ROM APIs instead of HAL APIs.
This leads to issues and is not the recommended approach.
Harshal Patil
Laukik Hase
Mahavir Jain
Aditya Patwardhan
Fu Hanxi
Ashish Sharma
Jiang Jiang Jian