[PATCH v5 0/8] ima: support fs-verity digests and signatures

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Fri Feb 11 2022 - 16:43:30 EST


Support for including fs-verity file digests and signatures in the IMA
measurement list as well as verifying the fs-verity file digest based
signatures, both based on IMA policy rules, was discussed prior to
fs-verity being upstreamed[1,2].

Support for including fs-verity file digests in the 'd-ng' template
field is based on a new policy rule option named 'digest_type=verity'.
A new template field named 'd-type' as well as a new template named
'ima-ngv2' are defined to differentiate between the regular IMA file
hashes from the fs-verity file digests (tree-hash based file hashes)
stored in the 'd-ng' template field of the measurement list.

A new signature version (v3) is defined as a hash of the 'ima_file_id'
struct, to disambiguate the signatures stored as 'security.ima' xattr.
The policy rule 'appraise_type=' option is extended to support 'sigv3',
which is initially limited to fs-verity.

The fs-verity 'appraise' rules are identified by the 'digest-type=verity'
option and require the 'appraise_type=sigv3' option.

Lastly, for IMA to differentiate between the original IMA signature
from an fs-verity signature a new 'xattr_type' named IMA_VERITY_DIGSIG
is defined.


[1] https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/fs-verify_Mike-Halcrow_Eric-Biggers.pdf
[2] Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst

Changelog v5:
- Define ima_max_digest_size struct, removing the locally defined versions.
- Don't overload the 'digest_type=verity' to imply a verity signature,
but extend the 'appraise_type' policy rule option to define 'sigv3'.

Changelog v4:
- Based on Eric Bigger's signature verification concerns of replacing the
contents of a file with the ima_file_id struct hash, require per policy
rule signature versions.
- Addressed Eric Bigger's other comments.
- Added new audit messages "causes".
- Updated patch descriptions.

Changelog v3:
- Addressed Eric Bigger's comments: included Ack, incremented the
signature format version, the crypto issues are generic and will be
addressed by him separately.
- Addressed Vitaly Chikunov's comments: hard coded maximum digest size
rather than using a flexible array, removed unnecessary assignment, and
fixed comment to match variable name.
- Defined new "ima_max_digest_size" struct to avoid wrapping the
"ima_digest_data" struct inside a function local structure or
having to dynamically allocate it with enough memory for the specific
hash algo size.

Changelog v2:
- Addressed Eric Bigger's comments: sign the hash of fsverity's digest
and the digest's metadata, use match_string, use preferred function
name fsverity_get_digest(), support including unsigned fs-verity's
digests in the IMA measurement list.
- Remove signatures requirement for including fs-verity's file digests in
the 'd-ng' field of the measurement list.

Changelog v1:
- Updated both fsverity and IMA documentation.
- Addressed both Eric Bigger's and Lakshmi's comments.

Mimi Zohar (8):
ima: rename IMA_ACTION_FLAGS to IMA_NONACTION_FLAGS
ima: define ima_max_digest_data struct without a flexible array
variable
fs-verity: define a function to return the integrity protected file
digest
ima: define a new template field 'd-type' and a new template
'ima-ngv2'
ima: permit fsverity's file digests in the IMA measurement list
ima: define signature version 3
ima: support fs-verity file digest based version 3 signatures
fsverity: update the documentation

Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy | 30 +++++-
Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst | 22 +++--
Documentation/security/IMA-templates.rst | 11 ++-
fs/verity/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/verity/fsverity_private.h | 7 --
fs/verity/measure.c | 41 ++++++++
include/linux/fsverity.h | 18 ++++
security/integrity/digsig.c | 3 +-
security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c | 49 ++++++++--
security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++-
security/integrity/ima/ima_init.c | 5 +-
security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 7 +-
security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 66 +++++++++++--
security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 3 +
security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c | 28 +++++-
security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.h | 2 +
security/integrity/integrity.h | 39 +++++++-
17 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

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