diff --git a/drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_common.c b/drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_common.c
index b6d02fd..cdb5042 100644
--- a/drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_common.c
+++ b/drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_common.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2018, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2019, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  */
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <drivers/auth/mbedtls/mbedtls_config.h>
 #include <plat/common/platform.h>
 
+#pragma weak plat_get_mbedtls_heap
+
 static void cleanup(void)
 {
 	ERROR("EXIT from BL2\n");
@@ -54,3 +56,19 @@
 		ready = 1;
 	}
 }
+
+/*
+ * The following default implementation of the function simply returns the
+ * by default allocated heap.
+ */
+int plat_get_mbedtls_heap(void **heap_addr, size_t *heap_size)
+{
+	static unsigned char heap[TF_MBEDTLS_HEAP_SIZE];
+
+	assert(heap_addr != NULL);
+	assert(heap_size != NULL);
+
+	*heap_addr = heap;
+	*heap_size = sizeof(heap);
+	return 0;
+}