Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix undefined arch_ima_get_secureboot() and co

From: joeyli
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 11:04:03 EST


Hi Takashi, Mimi,

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:58:47PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:31:21 +0100,
> Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >
> > Hi Takashi,
> >
> > On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 17:11 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Currently arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_get_ima_policy() are
> > > defined only when CONFIG_IMA is set, and this makes the code calling
> > > those functions without CONFIG_IMA failing. Although there is no such
> > > in-tree users, but the out-of-tree users already hit it.
> > >
> > > Move the declaration and the dummy definition of those functions
> > > outside ifdef-CONFIG_IMA block for fixing the undefined symbols.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Before lockdown was upstreamed, we made sure that IMA and lockdown
> > could co-exist. This patch makes the stub functions available even
> > when IMA is not configured. Do the remaining downstream patches
> > require IMA to be disabled or can IMA co-exist?
>
> I guess Joey (Cc'ed) can explain this better. AFAIK, currently it's
> used in a part of MODSIGN stuff in SUSE kernels, and it's calling
> unconditionally this function for checking whether the system is with
> the Secure Boot or not.
>

Actually in downstream code, I used arch_ima_get_secureboot() in
load_uefi_certs() to prevent the mok be loaded when secure boot is
disabled. Because the security of MOK relies on secure boot.

The downstream code likes this:

/* the MOK and MOKx can not be trusted when secure boot is disabled */
- if (!efi_enabled(EFI_SECURE_BOOT))
+ if (!arch_ima_get_secureboot())
return 0;

The old EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit can only be available on x86_64, so I switch
the code to to arch_ima_get_secureboot() for cross-architectures and sync
with upstream api.

The load_uefi.c depends on CONFIG_INTEGRITY but not CONFIG_IMA. So
load_uefi.c still be built when CONFIG_INTEGRITY=y and CONFIG_IMA=n.
Then "implicit declaration of function 'arch_ima_get_secureboot'" is
happened.

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee