Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 10 authors, 2019-06-25

Re: [PATCH V31 07/25] kexec_file: Restrict at runtime if the kernel is locked down

From: Dave Young <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-24 01:52:31
Also in: kexec, linux-api, lkml

On 06/21/19 at 01:18pm, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:43 PM Dave Young [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On 03/26/19 at 11:27am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
quoted
From: Jiri Bohac <redacted>

When KEXEC_SIG is not enabled, kernel should not load images through
kexec_file systemcall if the kernel is locked down.

[Modified by David Howells to fit with modifications to the previous patch
 and to return -EPERM if the kernel is locked down for consistency with
 other lockdowns. Modified by Matthew Garrett to remove the IMA
 integration, which will be replaced by integrating with the IMA
 architecture policy patches.]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Bohac <redacted>
cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
---
 kernel/kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 67f3a866eabe..a1cc37c8b43b 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -239,6 +239,12 @@ kimage_file_prepare_segments(struct kimage *image, int kernel_fd, int initrd_fd,
              }

              ret = 0;
+
+             if (kernel_is_locked_down(reason, LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY)) {
+                     ret = -EPERM;
+                     goto out;
+             }
+
Checking here is late, it would be good to move the check to earlier
code around below code:
        /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT) || kexec_load_disabled)
                return -EPERM;
I don't think so - we want it to be possible to load images if they
have a valid signature.
I know it works like this way because of the previous patch.  But from
the patch log "When KEXEC_SIG is not enabled, kernel should not load
images", it is simple to check it early for !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG) && 
kernel_is_locked_down(reason, LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY)  instead of depending
on the late code to verify signature.  In that way, easier to
understand the logic, no?

Thanks
Dave
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