Thanks for reviewing this series Mimi. Appreciate it.
Adding Eric to cc.
On 7/7/23 08:55, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Mon, 2023-07-03 at 14:56 -0700, Tushar Sugandhi wrote:
The current Kernel behavior is IMA measurements snapshot is taken at
kexec 'load' and not at kexec 'execute'. IMA log is then carried
over to the new Kernel after kexec 'execute'.
Some devices can be configured to call kexec 'load' first, and followed
by kexec 'execute' after some time. (as opposed to calling 'load' and
'execute' in one single kexec command). In such scenario, if new IMA
measurements are added between kexec 'load' and kexec 'execute', the
TPM PCRs are extended with the IMA events between 'load' and 'execute';
but those IMA events are not carried over to the new kernel after kexec
soft reboot. This results in mismatch between TPM PCR quotes and the
actual IMA measurements list after the device boots into the new kexec
image. This mismatch results in the remote attestation failing for that
device.
This patch series proposes a solution to solve this problem by allocating
the necessary buffer at kexec 'load' time, and populating the buffer
with the IMA measurements at kexec 'execute' time.
Thanks, Tushar. Depending on the IMA policy, the above problem
statement is correct, but not all policies are affected by it. It's
also unclear why so much needs to change. Instead of copying the
measurement list at kexec 'load', using the existing method and simply
copying them at kexec 'exec' would suffice.
My understanding is the buffer must be allocated at kexec ‘load’ time.
The segment size cannot change between kexec ‘load’ and kexec ‘execute’.
Not sure if this is a technical limitation of IMA, or KEXEC.
Could you/someone from kexec side let me know?
If my current understanding is not correct, then I agree, simply copying
the measurements at kexec ‘execute’ using ima_dump_measurement_list should
suffice.
Also as mentioned in comment on 3/10, the ordering of this patch set is
not bisect safe. If the same method of copying the measurement list
was used, changing from copying at kexec 'load' to kexec 'exec' could
be done in the same patch.
Mimi
Ok. Based on my above response, if there is no such technical limitation
to allocate and copy at kexec ‘execute’ – I will simply move the call
to ima_dump_measurement_list from kexec 'load' to 'exec'.
And that can be done inthe same patch as you mentioned.
~Tushar
The solution includes:
- addition of new functionality to allocate a buffer to hold IMA
measurements at kexec 'load',
- ima functionality to suspend and resume measurements as needed during
buffer copy at kexec 'execute',
- ima functionality for mapping the measurement list from the current
Kernel to the subsequent one,
- necessary changes to the kexec_file_load syscall, enabling it to call
the ima functions
- registering a reboot notifier which gets called during kexec 'execute',
- and removal of deprecated functions.
The modifications proposed in this series ensure the integrity of the ima
measurements is preserved across kexec soft reboots, thus significantly
improving the security of the Kernel post kexec soft reboots.
There were previous attempts to fix this issue [1], [2], [3]. But they
were not merged into the mainline Kernel.
We took inspiration from the past work [1] and [2] while working on this
patch series.
References:
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[1] [PATHC v2 5/9] ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472596811-9596-6-git-send-email-zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] PATCH v2 4/6] kexec_file: Add mechanism to update kexec segments.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/16/577
[3] [PATCH 1/6] kexec_file: Add buffer hand-over support
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1466473476-10104-6-git-send-email-bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
Tushar Sugandhi (10):
ima: implement function to allocate buffer at kexec load
ima: implement function to populate buffer at kexec execute
ima: allocate buffer at kexec load to hold ima measurements
ima: implement functions to suspend and resume measurements
kexec: implement functions to map and unmap segment to kimage
ima: update buffer at kexec execute with ima measurements
ima: remove function ima_dump_measurement_list
ima: implement and register a reboot notifier function to update kexec
buffer
ima: suspend measurements while the kexec buffer is being copied
kexec: update kexec_file_load syscall to call ima_kexec_post_load
include/linux/ima.h | 3 +
include/linux/kexec.h | 13 ++
kernel/kexec_core.c | 72 +++++++++-
kernel/kexec_file.c | 7 +
kernel/kexec_internal.h | 1 +
security/integrity/ima/ima.h | 4 +
security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
security/integrity/ima/ima_queue.c | 32 +++++
8 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
