This patch set adds in-kernel pkcs7 signature checking for the roothash of the dm-verity hash tree. The verification is to support cases where the roothash is not secured by Trusted Boot, UEFI Secureboot or similar technologies. One of the use cases for this is for dm-verity volumes mounted after boot, the root hash provided during the creation of the dm-verity volume has to be secure and thus in-kernel validation implemented here will be used before we trust the root hash and allow the block device to be created. Why we are doing validation in the Kernel? The reason is to still be secure in cases where the attacker is able to compromise the user mode application in which case the user mode validation could not have been trusted. The root hash signature validation in the kernel along with existing dm-verity implementation gives a higher level of confidence in the executable code or the protected data. Before allowing the creation of the device mapper block device the kernel code will check that the detached pkcs7 signature passed to it validates the roothash and the signature is trusted by builtin keys set at kernel creation. The kernel should be secured using Verified boot, UEFI Secure Boot or similar technologies so we can trust it. What about attacker mounting non dm-verity volumes to run executable code? This verification can be used to have a security architecture where a LSM can enforce this verification for all the volumes and by doing this it can ensure that all executable code runs from signed and trusted dm-verity volumes. Further patches will be posted that build on this and enforce this verification based on policy for all the volumes on the system. How are these changes tested? veritysetup part of cryptsetup library was modified to take a optional root-hash-sig parameter. Commandline used to test the changes: veritysetup open <data_device> <name> <hash_device> <root_hash> --root-hash-sig=<root_hash_pkcs7_detached_sig> The changes for veritysetup are in a topic branch for now at: https://github.com/jaskarankhurana/veritysetup/tree/veritysetup_add_sig Changelog: v3: - Code review feedback given by Sasha Levin. - Removed EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL since this was not required. - Removed "This file is released under the GPLv2" since we have SPDX identifier. - Inside verity_verify_root_hash changed EINVAL to ENOKEY when the key descriptor is not specified but due to force option being set it is expected. - Moved CONFIG check to inside verity_verify_get_sig_from_key. (Did not move the sig_opts_cleanup to inside verity_dtr as the sig_opts do not need to be allocated for the entire duration the block device is active unlike the verity structure, note verity_dtr is called only if verity_ctr fails or after the lifetime of the block device.) v2: - Code review feedback to pass the signature binary blob as a key that can be Jaskaran Khurana (1): Adds in-kernel pkcs7 sig checking the roothash of the dm-verity hash tree drivers/md/Kconfig | 23 ++++++ drivers/md/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 34 +++++++- drivers/md/dm-verity-verify-sig.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm-verity-verify-sig.h | 30 +++++++ 5 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/md/dm-verity-verify-sig.c create mode 100644 drivers/md/dm-verity-verify-sig.h -- 2.17.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
