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bootloader/tools/pbhw.py
BlackMark 546b1589a3 pureboot v9: seal every command, and stop guarding what the seal covers
'W' handed the loader a whole page with no ack inside it and sp_spm handed any
wire byte to SPMCSR, so a dropped byte re-aligned the stream and page data
arrived where commands belong. That is how a page-address byte became
BLBSET|SELFPRGEN on the tempmon board and programmed its lock bits.

The first answer was to refuse that one command. It was the wrong shape twice
over: it forbade a lock-bit write the owner may want, and it left every other
command decided by bytes nobody checked. v9 checks them instead. One header for
every command — opcode, selector, address, count, seal — folded and compared
before the command is decoded, and *answered* before any payload moves: '+'
accepts, 0xd4 (the ack inverted) refuses and nothing happened. An ack cannot do
this job; it reports a command that has already run.

It is smaller than v8 everywhere: 1284P 506→480, m8 498→480, 328P 484→468,
t13A 474→460. The seal costs 14 bytes; bit opcodes in place of the letters pay
for it twice over, since a letter costs a compare and a branch where a bit costs
a skip. Both guards go — the lock-bit refusal because the seal covers it, the
running-slot write guard because what it defended against was a wire fault
naming an address and a wire fault can no longer name one. That one is a real
trade: a host bug aimed at the running slot now lands. It buys a resident copy
that can write its own slot, which is the only self-update route on a chip whose
boot section *is* the slot.

Two things the tests caught, both introduced here. Removing the invalid-opcode
arm made every byte a command, so the knock stopped being harmless against a
loader already in session and ate the five bytes behind it — identify moves to
bit 5, which both 'p' and 'b' carry, so the knock is inert again and version
discovery still works before the version is known. And the SPM value rides the
count field because a data byte would arrive after the seal was checked.

pbselfwrite and pbglitch are the new gates, both red-green: the same erase of
the running page refused unsealed and performed sealed, and every header byte
damaged after sealing refused where the identical damage before sealing is
obeyed. Both judge by the simulator's flash, not the loader's opinion of it.
pbreloc and pbrehome lose their write-guard probes, which is what those two
gates replace. Defeating the seal in the loader turns seven tests red.

37 of 37 chips green with the exhaustive size matrix; README protocol section
and every size row rewritten. pbhw gains an adversarial --seal-rounds sweep for
the bench.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 18:38:41 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Hardware acceptance suite for a pureboot deployment.
`tools/check.sh` proves the protocol under simavr on every chip. This proves one
*board*: that the loader actually installed on it answers, that the memories
round-trip over the real link, that the application it flashes runs afterwards,
and that the refusals which keep a 512-byte slot alive still fire. Run it once
when a board is brought up, and again whenever the deployment moves — a new
clock, a new backend, new pins.
Every check derives its bounds from the info block the loader itself reports, so
nothing here is per-chip: the same run covers a 1 KiB tiny whose application
region is 510 usable bytes and a 128 KiB mega whose flash needs a bank in the
selector.
**This overwrites the board's application flash and EEPROM.** Capture them first
with `pbrig.py backup`, which verifies what it captured.
tools/pbhw.py --programmer atmelice_isp --part t13 --port COM6 \
--autobaud --loader build/ab.bin --app build/pbapp.hex \
--marker APP
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import pathlib
import sys
import tempfile
sys.path.insert(0, str(pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
import pbrig # noqa: E402
class Suite:
def __init__(self, rig: pbrig.Rig, work: pathlib.Path):
self.rig = rig
self.work = work
self.results: list[tuple[str, bool, str]] = []
def check(self, name: str, ok: bool, detail: str = "") -> bool:
self.results.append((name, ok, detail))
print(f" {'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'} {name}" + (f" {detail}" if detail else ""))
return ok
@staticmethod
def _brief(text: str, limit: int = 78) -> str:
return " | ".join(l.strip() for l in text.splitlines() if l.strip())[:limit]
# ----------------------------------------------------------------- checks
def identity(self) -> object | None:
"""The info block, which every later check takes its bounds from."""
module = pbrig.load_pureboot(self.rig.d.pureboot)
self.rig.reset()
port = self.rig.open_port() # wrapped for the echo where the line is shared
try:
loader = module.Loader(port)
if self.rig.d.autobaud:
loader.connect_autobaud(self.rig.d.wait)
else:
loader.connect(self.rig.d.wait)
info = loader.info
self.check("identity read", True, info.describe())
return info
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 — a dead link is a result
self.check("identity read", False, str(error)[:70])
return None
finally:
try:
port.close()
except Exception:
pass
def scan(self) -> None:
"""The --scan walk against real termios and a real oscillator: every
probe rate must open a port (the off-nominal rates exist only through
termios2), and one probe must answer — the nominal on a healthy board,
a neighbor on a drifted one. The rig injects the one reset per probe
the operator supplies in the field; this is the rate physics the
simulator cannot arbitrate (a pty carries bytes at any rate), pinned
on silicon."""
module = pbrig.load_pureboot(self.rig.d.pureboot)
found = None
try:
for pct in module.scan_ratios():
rate = module.scan_rate(self.rig.d.baud, pct)
self.rig.reset()
try:
# Same wrap as identity(): on a shared line an undiscarded
# echo answers every rate a scan probes, so the walk would
# report the first one it tried.
port = self.rig.open_port(rate)
except module.Error as error:
self.check("scan opens every probe rate", False, f"{rate} Bd: {error}")
return
try:
module.Loader(port).connect(min(self.rig.d.wait, 6.0))
found = pct
break
except module.Error:
continue
finally:
port.close()
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 — a rig hiccup is a result
self.check("scan walks the probe ladder", False, str(error)[:70])
return
self.check("scan finds the board's rate", found is not None,
"no probe answered" if found is None else f"{found:+d} % of {self.rig.d.baud} Bd")
def eeprom(self, info) -> None:
size = info.eeprom_size
if not size:
print(" skip EEPROM (this part has none)")
return
# A pattern no erase or partial write could produce by accident.
pattern = bytes((i * 7 + 3) & 0xFF for i in range(size))
image = self.work / "ee.bin"
image.write_bytes(pattern)
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--eeprom", str(image), "--verify-eeprom", str(image))
self.check(f"EEPROM write + verify ({size} B)", rc == 0, self._brief(out))
back = self.work / "ee-back.bin"
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--read-eeprom", str(back))
got = back.read_bytes() if back.exists() else b""
self.check("EEPROM reads back what was written", got == pattern, f"{len(got)} B")
self.rig.pureboot("--erase-eeprom")
erased = self.work / "ee-erased.bin"
self.rig.pureboot("--read-eeprom", str(erased))
got = erased.read_bytes() if erased.exists() else b""
self.check("EEPROM erase leaves 0xff", got == b"\xff" * size, f"{len(got)} B")
def application(self, info, app: pathlib.Path, marker: str,
marker_wait: float = 2.5) -> None:
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--flash", str(app), "--verify-flash", str(app))
self.check(f"application flash + verify ({app.name})", rc == 0, self._brief(out))
if marker:
# The tool hands over as it ends its session, so the application is
# already running — but only on a board whose DTR is unwired, where
# opening a port simply listens. Where DTR *is* wired to reset (an
# Arduino, most USB-serial dev boards), this open resets the part
# and the activation window comes first, so a marker emitted once at
# startup happens on the far side of a wait this cannot know the
# length of: the window is a compile-time constant and nothing on
# the wire reports it. Hence --marker-wait, and a fixture that
# repeats its banner (PUREBOOT_HEARTBEAT) rather than saying it once.
data = self.rig.capture(seconds=marker_wait)
seen = marker.encode() in data
sample = "".join(chr(b) if 32 <= b < 127 else "." for b in data[:40])
self.check(f"application runs (emits {marker!r})", seen,
f"|{sample}|" if seen or data else
f"nothing in {marker_wait:g} s — if this board resets when its port "
f"opens, that wait has to outlast the activation window")
back = self.work / "app-back.bin"
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--read-flash", str(back))
got = back.read_bytes() if back.exists() else b""
self.check("application flash reads back", rc == 0 and len(got) == info.base,
f"{len(got)} B of {info.base}")
def erase_and_slot(self, info, loader_image: pathlib.Path | None) -> None:
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--erase-flash")
self.check("application region erases", rc == 0, self._brief(out))
# The slot must be untouched by an application erase, which only an
# independent read can show — so this one goes over ISP, not the link.
whole = self.work / "whole.bin"
if not self.rig.read_memory("flash", whole, "r"):
self.check("loader slot survives the erase", False, "ISP read failed")
return
image = whole.read_bytes()
image += b"\xff" * (info.flash_size - len(image))
# Erased application flash, up to the trampoline word the host composes
# on a patched-vector part.
limit = info.base - 2 if info.patch_vector else info.base
self.check("erased application region is 0xff",
set(image[0:limit]) <= {0xFF}, f"0x0000..{limit:#06x}")
if loader_image and loader_image.exists():
want = loader_image.read_bytes()
got = image[info.base:info.base + len(want)]
self.check("loader slot survives the erase", got == want,
f"{len(want)} B at {info.base:#06x}")
else:
print(" skip loader slot comparison (pass --loader <image.bin>)")
def seal(self, info, rounds: int = 1) -> None:
"""The seal, adversarially, over the real link.
pureboot 9 has no running-slot guard: what stops a mangled command from
erasing the loader is the seal and nothing else. So this aims the worst
command the protocol has — an SPM erase at the loader's own first page —
and damages one header byte at a time. Every one must come back NAK with
the slot untouched and the session still in step.
On a board whose link drops or mangles bytes of its own accord this is
also the stress test: `--seal-rounds` repeats it, and a link fault
during a round is indistinguishable to the loader from the damage being
injected, which is the point.
"""
module = pbrig.load_pureboot(self.rig.d.pureboot)
self.rig.reset()
port = self.rig.open_port()
try:
loader = module.Loader(port)
if self.rig.d.autobaud:
loader.connect_autobaud(self.rig.d.wait)
else:
loader.connect(self.rig.d.wait)
if loader.info.version < module.SEALED_LOADER:
print(f" skip seal checks (loader is pureboot {loader.info.version})")
return
head_of = lambda dmg: self._sealed(module, module.OP_WRITE, module.SP_SPM,
info.base, module.SPM_ERASE, dmg)
refused = 0
attempts = 0
for _ in range(rounds):
for index in range(6):
attempts += 1
port.write(head_of((index, 0x01)))
verdict = port.read_exact(1, 5.0)
if verdict != module.NAK:
self.check(f"damaged byte {index} refused", False,
f"verdict {verdict.hex()}")
return
if port.read_exact(1, 5.0) != module.PROMPT:
self.check(f"re-prompt after byte {index}", False, "no prompt")
return
refused += 1
self.check("damaged headers refused", refused == attempts,
f"{refused}/{attempts}, every header byte")
self.check("session still in step", loader.identity().raw == info.raw)
# And the slot itself, read back over the link: the loader is the
# thing that would have been erased, so its own account of its
# first bytes is a real witness — an erased page reads all 0xff.
head = loader.read_flash(info.base, 16)
self.check("loader slot intact", set(head) != {0xFF}, head[:8].hex())
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 — a dead link is a result
self.check("seal checks", False, str(error)[:70])
finally:
try:
port.close()
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
@staticmethod
def _sealed(module, op, space, address, count, damage=None):
"""A sealed header, damaged after sealing — the shape a link fault has."""
head = bytearray((op, module.selector(space, address), address & 0xFF,
(address >> 8) & 0xFF, count & 0xFF))
seal = module.SEAL
for byte in head:
seal ^= byte
out = bytearray(head + bytes((seal,)))
if damage:
out[damage[0]] ^= damage[1]
return bytes(out)
def refusals(self, info) -> None:
# One word too many: a patched-vector part spends the slot's last word
# on the trampoline, so its application stops two bytes short.
limit = info.base - 2 if info.patch_vector else info.base
oversized = self.work / "oversized.bin"
oversized.write_bytes(bytes(limit + 2))
rc, out = self.rig.pureboot("--flash", str(oversized))
self.check(f"image over {limit} B refused", rc != 0, self._brief(out))
# ------------------------------------------------------------------- run
def run(self, app: pathlib.Path | None, loader_image: pathlib.Path | None,
marker: str, marker_wait: float = 2.5, seal_rounds: int = 1) -> int:
print("identity")
info = self.identity()
if info is None:
print("\nthe loader never answered; nothing below can be trusted")
return 1
if not self.rig.d.autobaud:
print("\nscan")
self.scan()
print("\nEEPROM")
self.eeprom(info)
if app:
print("\napplication")
self.application(info, app, marker, marker_wait)
else:
print("\nskip application checks (pass --app <image.hex>)")
print("\nerase and the slot boundary")
self.erase_and_slot(info, loader_image)
print("\nthe seal")
self.seal(info, seal_rounds)
print("\nrefusals")
self.refusals(info)
passed = sum(1 for _, ok, _ in self.results if ok)
print(f"\n{passed}/{len(self.results)} passed")
return 0 if passed == len(self.results) else 1
def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="hardware acceptance suite for one pureboot deployment",
epilog="overwrites the board's application flash and EEPROM — back them up first")
pbrig.Deployment.add_arguments(parser)
parser.add_argument("--app", type=pathlib.Path,
help="application image to flash (test/pbapp.cpp built for this deployment)")
parser.add_argument("--loader", type=pathlib.Path,
help="the resident loader's .bin, to prove the slot survives an erase")
parser.add_argument("--seal-rounds", type=int, default=1,
help="repeat the adversarial seal sweep N times (a lossy board's stress test)")
parser.add_argument("--marker", default="",
help="text the application emits when it runs, e.g. APP")
parser.add_argument("--marker-wait", type=float, default=2.5,
help="seconds to listen for it. On a board whose DTR is wired to "
"reset, opening the port resets the part, so this must outlast "
"the activation window (default 2.5)")
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
rig = pbrig.Rig(pbrig.Deployment.from_args(args))
print(f"rig: {args.part} on {args.programmer}, link {args.port} at {args.baud} Bd"
f"{' (autobaud)' if args.autobaud else ''}")
print("this overwrites the application flash and EEPROM\n")
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="pbhw-") as temporary:
return Suite(rig, pathlib.Path(temporary)).run(args.app, args.loader, args.marker,
args.marker_wait, args.seal_rounds)
if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
sys.exit(main())
except pbrig.Error as error:
print(f"error: {error}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)