Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 6 authors, 2019-08-05

Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or deactivated

From: Tyler Hicks <hidden>
Date: 2019-07-08 19:55:47
Also in: keyrings, linux-integrity, lkml

On 2019-07-05 18:37:35, Roberto Sassu wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Commit c78719203fc6 ("KEYS: trusted: allow trusted.ko to initialize w/o a
TPM") allows the trusted module to be loaded even a TPM is not found to
avoid module dependency problems.

Unfortunately, this does not completely solve the issue, as there could be
a case where a TPM is found but is not functional (the TPM commands return
an error). Specifically, after the tpm_chip structure is returned by
tpm_default_chip() in init_trusted(), the execution terminates after
init_digests() returns -EFAULT (due to the fact that tpm_get_random()
returns a positive value, but less than TPM_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE).

This patch fixes the issue by ignoring the TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED and
TPM_ERR_DISABLED errors.

Fixes: 240730437deb ("KEYS: trusted: explicitly use tpm_chip structure...")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h  | 2 --
 include/linux/tpm.h     | 3 +++
 security/keys/trusted.c | 6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
index e503ffc3aa39..a216ac396711 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ enum tpm_addr {
 
 #define TPM_WARN_RETRY          0x800
 #define TPM_WARN_DOING_SELFTEST 0x802
-#define TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED     0x6
-#define TPM_ERR_DISABLED        0x7
 #define TPM_ERR_INVALID_POSTINIT 38
 
 #define TPM_HEADER_SIZE		10
diff --git a/include/linux/tpm.h b/include/linux/tpm.h
index 53c0ea9ec9df..efd3ccbb6aee 100644
--- a/include/linux/tpm.h
+++ b/include/linux/tpm.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 #define TPM_DIGEST_SIZE 20	/* Max TPM v1.2 PCR size */
 #define TPM_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE SHA512_DIGEST_SIZE
 
+#define TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED     0x6
+#define TPM_ERR_DISABLED        0x7
+
 struct tpm_chip;
 struct trusted_key_payload;
 struct trusted_key_options;
diff --git a/security/keys/trusted.c b/security/keys/trusted.c
index 9a94672e7adc..430d85090b3b 100644
--- a/security/keys/trusted.c
+++ b/security/keys/trusted.c
@@ -389,6 +389,10 @@ static int pcrlock(const int pcrnum)
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	/* This can happen if the TPM is inactive. */
+	if (!digests)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	return tpm_pcr_extend(chip, pcrnum, digests) ? -EINVAL : 0;
 }
 
@@ -1233,7 +1237,7 @@ static int __init init_digests(void)
 	int i;
 
 	ret = tpm_get_random(chip, digest, TPM_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE);
-	if (ret < 0)
+	if (ret < 0 || ret == TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED || ret == TPM_ERR_DISABLED)
 		return ret;
As someone who hasn't looked at much of the TPM code, I would have
expected tpm_get_random() to return a positive value that only ever
indicates the number of random bytes saved to the buffer. From the
function documentation:

  Return: number of random bytes read or a negative error value.

Despite the function documentation and as your patch suggests, I can
see that it is possible for tpm_transmit_cmd() to return
a positive value that's also returned by tpm_get_random() even though it
may not have filled the buffer when the TPM is in an
inactive/deactivated state.

I think there are other callers which are not prepared for positive
return values that indicate a failure to fill the buffer with random
data. For instance, the way that tpm_hwrng_read() is calling
tpm_get_random() looks a little worrisome.

This patch would likely fix the bug reported against eCryptfs
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203953) but I can't help to
think that callers of tpm_get_random() would benefit from a more
consolidated approach of handling TPM_ERR_* return values rather than
handling them at this single call site.

Tyler
 	if (ret < TPM_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE)
 		return -EFAULT;
-- 
2.17.1
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