plat/arm: fvp: Protect GICR frames for fused/unused cores
Currently, BLs are mapping the GIC memory region as read-write
for all cores on boot-up.
This opens up the security hole where the active core can write
the GICR frame of fused/inactive core. To avoid this issue, disable
the GICR frame of all inactive cores as below:
1. After primary CPU boots up, map GICR region of all cores as
read-only.
2. After primary CPU boots up, map its GICR region as read-write
and initialize its redistributor interface.
3. After secondary CPU boots up, map its GICR region as read-write
and initialize its redistributor interface.
4. All unused/fused core's redistributor regions remain read-only and
write attempt to such protected regions results in an exception.
As mentioned above, this patch offers only the GICR memory-mapped
region protection considering there is no facility at the GIC IP
level to avoid writing the redistributor area.
These changes are currently done in BL31 of Arm FVP and guarded under
the flag 'FVP_GICR_REGION_PROTECTION'.
As of now, this patch is tested manually as below:
1. Disable the FVP cores (core 1, 2, 3) with core 0 as an active core.
2. Verify data abort triggered by manually updating the ‘GICR_CTLR’
register of core 1’s(fused) redistributor from core 0(active).
Change-Id: I86c99c7b41bae137b2011cf2ac17fad0a26e776d
Signed-off-by: Manish V Badarkhe <Manish.Badarkhe@arm.com>
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