Re: [PATCH v16 13/20] dm verity: consume root hash digest and signature data via LSM hook

[Paul Moore]

On Mar 28, 2024 Fan Wu <wufan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> dm-verity provides a strong guarantee of a block device's integrity. As
> a generic way to check the integrity of a block device, it provides
> those integrity guarantees to its higher layers, including the filesystem
> level.
> 
> An LSM that control access to a resource on the system based on the
> available integrity claims can use this transitive property of
> dm-verity, by querying the underlying block_device of a particular
> file.
> 
> The digest and signature information need to be stored in the block
> device to fulfill the next requirement of authorization via LSM policy.
> This will enable the LSM to perform revocation of devices that are still
> mounted, prohibiting execution of files that are no longer authorized
> by the LSM in question.
> 
> This patch adds two security hook calls in dm-verity to save the
> dm-verity roothash and the roothash signature to the block device's
> LSM blobs. The hook calls are depended on CONFIG_IPE_PROP_DM_VERITY,
> which will be introduced in the next commit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>   + No Changes
> 
> v3:
>   + No changes
> 
> v4:
>   + No changes
> 
> v5:
>   + No changes
> 
> v6:
>   + Fix an improper cleanup that can result in
>     a leak
> 
> v7:
>   + Squash patch 08/12, 10/12 to [11/16]
>   + Use part0 for block_device, to retrieve the block_device, when
>     calling security_bdev_setsecurity
> 
> v8:
>   + Undo squash of 08/12, 10/12 - separating drivers/md/ from
>     security/ & block/
>   + Use common-audit function for dmverity_signature.
>   + Change implementation for storing the dm-verity digest to use the
>     newly introduced dm_verity_digest structure introduced in patch
>     14/20.
>   + Create new structure, dm_verity_digest, containing digest algorithm,
>     size, and digest itself to pass to the LSM layer. V7 was missing the
>     algorithm.
>   + Create an associated public header containing this new structure and
>     the key values for the LSM hook, specific to dm-verity.
>   + Additional information added to commit, discussing the layering of
>     the changes and how the information passed will be used.
> 
> v9:
>   + No changes
> 
> v10:
>   + No changes
> 
> v11:
>   + Add an optional field to save signature
>   + Move the security hook call to the new finalize hook
> 
> v12:
>   + No changes
> 
> v13:
>   + No changes
> 
> v14:
>   + Correct code format
>   + Remove unnecessary header and switch to dm_disk()
> 
> v15:
>   + Refactor security_bdev_setsecurity() to security_bdev_setintegrity()
>   + Remove unnecessary headers
> 
> v16:
>   + Use kmemdup to duplicate signature
>   + clean up lsm blob data in error case
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/md/dm-verity.h        |  6 +++
>  include/linux/dm-verity.h     | 12 +++++
>  include/linux/security.h      |  3 +-
>  4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/dm-verity.h
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index bb5da66da4c1..e2b0657b09f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
>  #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/jump_label.h>
> +#include <linux/security.h>
> +#include <linux/dm-verity.h>
>  
>  #define DM_MSG_PREFIX			"verity"
>  
> @@ -1017,6 +1019,38 @@ static void verity_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits)
>  	blk_limits_io_min(limits, limits->logical_block_size);
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IPE_PROP_DM_VERITY
> +
> +static int verity_init_sig(struct dm_verity *v, const void *sig,
> +			   size_t sig_size)
> +{
> +	v->sig_size = sig_size;
> +	v->root_digest_sig = kmemdup(sig, v->sig_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!v->root_digest)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void verity_free_sig(struct dm_verity *v)
> +{
> +	kfree(v->root_digest_sig);
> +}
> +
> +#else
> +
> +static inline int verity_init_sig(struct dm_verity *v, const void *sig,
> +				  size_t sig_size)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void verity_free_sig(struct dm_verity *v)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_IPE_PROP_DM_VERITY */

Please see my comments from the v15 patchset where I talked about using
CONFIG_SECURITY instead of CONFIG_IPE_PROP_DM_VERITY.

> @@ -1584,6 +1626,44 @@ int dm_verity_get_root_digest(struct dm_target *ti, u8 **root_digest, unsigned i
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IPE_PROP_DM_VERITY
> +
> +static int verity_finalize(struct dm_target *ti)
> +{
> +	struct block_device *bdev;
> +	struct dm_verity_digest root_digest;
> +	struct dm_verity *v;
> +	int r;
> +
> +	v = ti->private;
> +	bdev = dm_disk(dm_table_get_md(ti->table))->part0;
> +	root_digest.digest = v->root_digest;
> +	root_digest.digest_len = v->digest_size;
> +	root_digest.alg = v->alg_name;
> +
> +	r = security_bdev_setintegrity(bdev, LSM_INT_DMVERITY_ROOTHASH, &root_digest,
> +				       sizeof(root_digest));
> +	if (r)
> +		return r;
> +
> +	r = security_bdev_setintegrity(bdev,
> +				       LSM_INT_DMVERITY_SIG,
> +				       v->root_digest_sig,
> +				       v->sig_size);
> +	if (r)
> +		goto bad;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +
> +bad:
> +
> +	security_bdev_setintegrity(bdev, LSM_INT_DMVERITY_ROOTHASH, NULL, 0);
> +
> +	return r;

Nitpicky, but you really don't need to use as much vertical whitespace
here:

  err:
    security_bdev_setintegrity(...);
    return r;

> +}

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