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Julius Werner 187f069f89 vboot2: Add more precise recovery reasons to firmware verification
vboot1 kept track of an internal "LoadFirmware() check" value for both
firmware slots and encoded the value for the slot that managed to go
further in the verification flow into a special range of recovery
reasons. vboot2 instead uses the generic "invalid RW" reason for all
firmware verification failures and communicates further information
through the subcode.

While the subcode may be good enough for developers, it's difficult to
communicate failure reasons to "normal" users (like non-firmware
developers) on the TAB screen. Currently we just display a couple of
numbers that people won't know how to interpret and "RW firmware failed
signature check" for any verification error (including rollback, which
might be the most commonly encountered in practice).

Since our recovery reason space is big enough (and we don't reuse old
numbers anyway), we might as well reuse the more precise numbers (and
strings) from vboot1 to communicate the failure reason, even if we don't
implement its "which slot came further" algorithm. This patch translates
the most common/useful VBSD_LF_CHECK numbers into plain VB2_RECOVERY
reasons and uses them where appropriate.

CQ-DEPEND=CL:248400
BRANCH=veyron
BUG=None
TEST=make runtests VBOOT2=1
test_that my_jerry firmware_CorruptBothFwSigAB
firmware_CorruptBothFwBodyAB firmware_RollbackFirmware
(Confirmed that matched recovery reasons are the more precise ones in
the 0x10-0x1F range.)

Change-Id: I51ecf1b820d1faa40405cb84377380d6f3f6ca1d
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/248392
Reviewed-by: Bill Richardson <wfrichar@chromium.org>
2015-02-12 00:41:33 +00:00
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Here's what's what in the firmware/ directory.

include/
lib/

  These are the original structures and APIs used in the earliest
  Chromebooks and continuing through 2014. It never had a version as such to
  begin with, but we now refer to this implementation as "vboot1" or
  "vboot version 1.0".

linktest/
stub/

  These are stubs used to link the vboot1 libraries into host-side test
  executables so we can run some tests on the build machine instead of a
  Chromebook.

2lib/

  In 2014 we began work on a new vboot API. The first step was just a
  refactoring and renaming of the verification API. The public functions and
  external headers that are exported for use by the Chrome OS firmware (or
  anything else that wants to use vboot) live in here. The internal
  structures and implementations go elsewhere.

lib20/

  This is an early implementation of the public (2lib/) API. It is
  binary-compatible with vboot1, so although the interface details are
  different, any existing on-device structures or signatures created by the
  vboot1 tools can be validated using this implementation.

  This was deployed slightly before it was ready. That's not a problem,
  thanks to the binary compatibility, but this directory will be abandoned
  Real Soon Now, except for the product support branches.

lib21/

  This is where the current development of the second-generation vboot API
  is taking place. It uses the public (2lib/) API, but will NOT be binary
  compatible with vboot1 structs. Because of the early release of the lib20
  stuff, we're actually calling this lib21.