linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 00:06:36 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, james.l.morris@...cle.com,
	serge@...lyn.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Joey Lee <jlee@...e.de>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	mricon@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing

One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> Ie you need to sign something more than the firmware, such as (firmware,
> modinfo), so it's signed for "firmware X on PCI:8086,1114 or "firmware Y
> on ACPI:0A1D"

I'm suggesting that we use the name string passed to request_firmware().

> IMHO we want the supplier of a given firmware providing signatures on
> the firmware git tree if this is done. A generic linux-firmware owned key
> would be both a horrendously inviting attack target, and a single point of
> failure.
> 
> Git can already do all the needed commit signing bits unless I'm missing
> something here ?

How does this help the kernel check that it's been given the right firmware
blob for its request?  Unless you compile into the kernel a list of hashes
compiled from the linux-firmware git head (or representative root hash) - in
which case we're back to Andy's hash list/hash tree approach with the problems
that that entails.

David
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