[PATCH 1/2] common: misc: add soc_uid_bin to globalvar

Jonas Rebmann jre at pengutronix.de
Mon Apr 13 01:21:49 PDT 2026


On 2026-03-30 14:24, Fabian Pflug wrote:
> uidstr and uidbuf could be the same, but don't have to be. This results
> in uncertainty on what exactly is the current UID used for
> machine_set_hashable and to compare against with TLV.
> 
> Add an additional global var, that represents a binary representation
> of the soc_uid_bin variable.

gloval var, that encodes SoC-UID registers in a manner uniform across
SoCs/manufacturers.

> This can now be used to feed as data for bound-soc-uid into
> `bareboxtlv-generator.py` or as the value for
> `CONFIG_HABV4_CSF_UNLOCK_UID`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Pflug <f.pflug at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>   common/misc.c | 8 ++++++--
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/misc.c b/common/misc.c
> index ecf9574f7a..f18c8b5825 100644
> --- a/common/misc.c
> +++ b/common/misc.c
> @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ const uuid_t *barebox_get_product_uuid(void)
>   BAREBOX_MAGICVAR(global.product.uuid, "SMBIOS-reported product UUID");
>   
>   static char *soc_uid_str;
> +static char *soc_uid_bin_str;
>   static void *soc_uid;
>   static size_t soc_uid_len;
>   
> @@ -295,16 +296,19 @@ void barebox_set_soc_uid(const char *uidstr, const void *uidbuf, size_t len)
>   	soc_uid = xmemdup(uidbuf, len);
>   	soc_uid_len = len;
>   
> +	soc_uid_bin_str = xzalloc(len * 2 + 1);
> +	bin2hex(soc_uid_bin_str, uidbuf, len);
> +
>   	if (uidstr) {
>   		soc_uid_str = xstrdup(uidstr);
>   	} else {
> -		soc_uid_str = xzalloc(len * 2 + 1);
> -		bin2hex(soc_uid_str, uidbuf, len);
> +		soc_uid_str = soc_uid_bin_str;
>   	}
>   
>   	machine_id_set_hashable(uidbuf, len);
>   
>   	globalvar_add_simple_string("soc_uid", &soc_uid_str);
> +	globalvar_add_simple_string("soc_uid_bin", &soc_uid_bin_str);
>   }
>   BAREBOX_MAGICVAR(global.soc_uid, "SoC Unique ID");

soc_uid_bin needs a BAREBOX_MAGICVAR entry too, to show up in
https://www.barebox.org/doc/latest/user/variables.html

>   
> 

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