Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] PM / hibernate: Create snapshot keys handler

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > Note if someone has your laptop and the ability to boot their own
> > > kernels, they could always corrupt the kernel into decrypting the
> > > image or giving you the unsealed key, but there's no real way of
> > > preventing that even with PCR sealing or lockdown, so the basis for
> > > the threat model is very much my laptop in my possession running my
> > > kernel.
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure I agree.  With a TPM-aware bootloader, it
> > really ought to be possible to seal to PCRs such that a corrupted
> > kernel can't restore the image.  Obviously a *compromised* but
> > otherwise valid kernel will be able to restore the image.
> 
> It is possible to seal the key so that only the same booted kernel can
> restore the image, yes.  One of the measurements that goes into the
> boot log is the hash of the kernel and you can seal to this value ...
> obviously if you upgrade your kernel RPM (or shim or grub) this value
> changes and you'd lose the ability to restore the hibernated image, but
> since the image is very kernel specific, that's probably OK.

Non-ancient kernels actually support hibernation by one kernel and
restore by another one.

But yes, normally it is same kernel binary doing hibernation and
restore.

									Pavel
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