Re: Adding cmldine args measure to ima

[Mimi Zohar]

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 17:27 +0000, Prakhar Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently Kexec (kexec_file_load) code path does not measure the cmdline 
> arguments passed to the next kernel.The boot_aggregate won't change since 
> the EFI loader hasn't been triggered. Attesting the same in K2 has no impact.
> Adding the cmdline measurement will add some attestable criteria.
> 
> To account for the cmdline passed, we are looking at using IMA to measure and 
> pass the buffer so that it can be attested.
> 
> Do you have any alternate solutions/concerns with this approach?

I started looking at this a couple of years ago, but haven't had time.
I definitely don't have problems with extending IMA to measure the
boot command line.

Mimi