Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2018-09-27

[PATCH v2, RESEND 0/3] tpm: retrieve digest size of unknown algorithms from TPM

From: zohar@linux.ibm.com (Mimi Zohar)
Date: 2018-09-26 14:41:00
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On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 11:38 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
Resending to maintainer with correct mailing lists in CC.

The TPM driver currently relies on the crypto subsystem to determine the
digest size of supported TPM algorithms. In the future, TPM vendors might
implement new algorithms in their chips, and those algorithms might not
be supported by the crypto subsystem.

Usually, vendors provide patches for the new hardware, and likely
the crypto subsystem will be updated before the new algorithm is
introduced. However, old kernels might be updated later, after patches
are included in the mainline kernel. This would leave the opportunity
for attackers to misuse PCRs, as PCR banks with an unknown algorithm
are not extended.

This patch set provides a long term solution for this issue. If a TPM
algorithm is not known by the crypto subsystem, the TPM driver retrieves
the digest size from the TPM with a PCR read. All the PCR banks are
extended, even if the algorithm is not yet supported by the crypto
subsystem.
Other than checking the digest size before copying the pcrread buffer,
the patches look good. ?Please add my Ack on all 3 patches.

(New address) Acked-by: Mimi Zohar [off-list ref]

Thanks!

Mimi
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