> From: owner-linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux- > security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mimi Zohar > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:17 PM > On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 07:54 +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > > > > Roberto, EVM is only triggered by IMA, unless you've modified the > > > > > kernel to do otherwise. > > > > > > > > EVM would deny xattr/attr operations even if IMA is disabled in the > > > > kernel configuration. For example, evm_setxattr() returns the value > > > > from evm_protect_xattr(). IMA is not involved there. > > > > > > Commit ae1ba1676b88 ("EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of > > > EVM-protected metadata") > introduced EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES > > > to allow writing the EVM portable and immutable file signatures. > > > > According to Documentation/ABI/testing/evm: > > > > Note that once a key has been loaded, it will no longer be > > possible to enable metadata modification. > > Not any key, but the HMAC key. > > 2 Permit modification of EVM-protected metadata at > runtime. Not supported if HMAC validation and > creation is enabled. #ifdef CONFIG_EVM_LOAD_X509 void __init evm_load_x509(void) { [...] rc = integrity_load_x509(INTEGRITY_KEYRING_EVM, CONFIG_EVM_X509_PATH); if (!rc) evm_initialized |= EVM_INIT_X509; static ssize_t evm_write_key(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { [...] /* Don't allow a request to freshly enable metadata writes if * keys are loaded. */ if ((i & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES) && ((evm_initialized & EVM_KEY_MASK) != 0) && !(evm_initialized & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES)) return -EPERM; Should have been: if ((i & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES) && ((evm_initialized & EVM_INIT_HMAC) != 0) && !(evm_initialized & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES)) return -EPERM; > Each time the EVM protected file metadata is updated, the EVM HMAC is > updated, assuming the existing EVM HMAC is valid. Userspace should > not have access to the HMAC key, so we only allow writing EVM > signatures. > > The only difference between writing the original EVM signature and the > new portable and immutable signature is the security.ima xattr > requirement. Since the new EVM signature does not include the > filesystem specific data, something else needs to bind the file > metadata to the file data. Thus the IMA xattr requirement. > > Assuming that the new EVM signature is written last, as long as there > is an IMA xattr, there shouldn't be a problem writing the new EVM > signature. /* first need to know the sig type */ rc = vfs_getxattr_alloc(dentry, XATTR_NAME_EVM, (char **)&xattr_data, 0, GFP_NOFS); if (rc <= 0) { evm_status = INTEGRITY_FAIL; if (rc == -ENODATA) { rc = evm_find_protected_xattrs(dentry); if (rc > 0) evm_status = INTEGRITY_NOLABEL; else if (rc == 0) evm_status = INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS; /* new file */ If EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES is cleared, only the first xattr can be written (status INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS is ok). After, evm_find_protected_xattrs() returns rc > 0, so the status is INTEGRITY_NOLABEL, which is not ignored by evm_protect_xattr(). Roberto HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Duesseldorf GmbH, HRB 56063 Managing Director: Li Peng, Li Jian, Shi Yanli
