This change addresses a rare but critical issue observed on certain
ESP32-C3 and ESP32-S3 devices, where secure boot verification
intermittently fails due to improper cleanup of crypto peripherals
during a restart.
Background – Restart Behavior in IDF
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In ESP-IDF, when the device restarts (via `esp_restart()` or due to a
panic/exception), a partial peripheral reset is performed followed by a
CPU reset. However, until now, crypto-related peripherals were not
included in this selective reset sequence.
Problem Scenario
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If a restart occurs while the application is in the middle of a bignum
operation (i.e., using the MPI/Bignum peripheral), the ROM code may
encounter an inconsistent peripheral state during the subsequent boot.
This leads to transient RSA-PSS secure boot verification failures.
Following such a failure, the ROM typically triggers a full-chip reset
via the watchdog timer (WDT). This full reset clears the crypto
peripheral state, allowing secure boot verification to succeed on the
next boot.
Risk with Aggressive Revocation
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If secure boot aggressive revocation is enabled (disabled by default in
IDF), this transient verification failure could mistakenly lead to
revocation of the secure boot digest.
If your product configuration has aggressive revocation enabled,
applying this fix is strongly recommended.
Frequency of Occurrence
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The issue is rare and only occurs in corner cases involving
simultaneous use of the MPI peripheral and an immediate CPU reset.
Fix
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This fix ensures that all crypto peripherals are explicitly reset prior
to any software-triggered restart (including panic scenarios),
guaranteeing a clean peripheral state for the next boot and preventing
incorrect secure boot behavior.
This commit deprecates the "freertos/xtensa_api.h" and "xtensa/xtensa_api.h"
include paths. Users should use "xtensa_api.h" instead.
- Replace legacy include paths
- Removed some unnecessary includes of "xtensa_api.h"
- Replaced some calls with "esp_cpu_..." equivalents
- Add warning to compatibility header
1. Remove RTC_CLOCK_BBPLL_POWER_ON_WITH_USB Kconfig option
During sleep, BBPLL clock always gets disabled
esp_restart does not disable BBPLL clock, so that first stage bootloader log can be printed
2. Add a new Kconfig option PM_NO_AUTO_LS_ON_USJ_CONNECTED
When this option is selected, IDF will constantly monitor USB CDC port connection status.
As long as it gets connected to a HOST, automatic light-sleep will not happen.
Closes https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/8507
This commit marks all functions in interrupt_controller_hal.h, cpu_ll.h and cpu_hal.h as deprecated.
Users should use functions from esp_cpu.h instead.
1. Rename MACROs SYSTEM_WIFI_RST_EN register bit fields to be more recognizable
2. reset Bluetooth baseband and clock bits to fix the issue of task watchdog triggered during controller initialization due to invalid hardware state
This commit makes changes to cpu_ll.h, cpu_hal.h, and interrupt_controller_hal.h:
- Moved to esp_hw_support in order to be deprecated in the future
- HAL/LL API now route their calls to esp_cpu.h functions instead
Also updated soc_hal.h as follows:
- Removed __SOC_HAL_..._OTHER_CORES() macros as they dependend on cpu_hal.h
- Made soc_hal.h and soc_ll.h interfaces always inline, and removed soc_hal.c.
This commit also updates the XCHAL_ERRATUM_572 workaround by
- Removing it's HAL function and invoking the workaround it directly the bootloader
- Added missing workaround for the ESP32-S3
If a windowoverflow8 happened after changing the SP, the exception handler would look for
the extra save area by looking at the previous frame's SP. This SP would be a garbage value
and could cause the windowoverflow exception to write to invalid memory ares.
The following files were deleted:
- components/esp_hw_support/include/soc/cpu.h
- components/soc/esp32s3/include/soc/cpu.h
The following functions are deprecated:
- get_sp()
The following functions declared in soc/cpu.h are now moved to esp_cpu.h:
- esp_cpu_configure_region_protection()
The following functions declared in soc/cpu.h are now moved to components/xtensa/include/esp_cpu_utils.h:
- esp_cpu_process_stack_pc()
All files with soc/cpu.h inclusion are updated to include esp_cpu.h instead.
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Mohanty <sudeep.mohanty@espressif.com>
