Re: [PATCH v2] ima-evm-utils: Improve ima_measurement matching on busy system with >1 banks

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On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 07:21 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> When a system is very busy with IMA taking measurements into more than
> one bank, then we often do not get the PCR 10 values of the sha1 bank
> that represents the same log entry as the reading of the PCR value of
> the sha256 bank. In other words, the reading of the PCR 10 value from
> the sha1 bank may represent the PCR 10 state at the time of the
> n-th entry in the log while the reading of the PCR 10 value from the
> sha256 bank may represent the state at the time of a later-than-n entry.
> The result currently is that the PCR measurements do not match and
> on a busy system the tool may not easily report a successful match.
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by separating the TPM bank comparison for
> each one of the banks being looked and using a bit mask for checking
> which banks have already been matched. Once the mask has become 0
> all PCR banks have been successfully matched.
> 
> A run on a busy system may result in the output as follows indicating
> PCR bank matches at the n-th entry for the sha1 bank and at a later
> entry, possibly n + 1 or n + 2 or so, for the sha256 bank. The
> output is interleaved with a match of the sha1 bank against 'padded
> matching'.
> 
> $ evmctl ima_measurement --ignore-violations /sys/kernel/security/ima/binary_runtime_measurements -v
> sha1: PCRAgg  10: 381cc6139e2fbda76037ec0946089aeccaaa5374
> sha1: TPM PCR-10: 381cc6139e2fbda76037ec0946089aeccaaa5374
> sha1 PCR-10: succeed at entry 4918
> sha1: PCRAgg  10: 381cc6139e2fbda76037ec0946089aeccaaa5374
> sha1: TPM PCR-10: 381cc6139e2fbda76037ec0946089aeccaaa5374
> sha1 PCR-10: succeed at entry 4918
> [...]
> sha256: PCRAgg  10: c21dcb7098b3d7627f7aaeddf8aff68a65209027274d82af52be2fd302193eb7
> sha256: TPM PCR-10: c21dcb7098b3d7627f7aaeddf8aff68a65209027274d82af52be2fd302193eb7
> sha256 PCR-10: succeed at entry 4922
> Matched per TPM bank calculated digest(s).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1->v2:
>  - Reporting entry number that resulted in a match when in verbose mode

Thanks,  Stefan.   This and your other two patches are now queued in
next-testing.

Mimi




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