linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] tpm: enhance TPM 2.0 extend function to support multiple PCR banks

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 00:15:50 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterhuewe@....de,
        tpmdd@...horst.net, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] tpm: enhance TPM 2.0 extend function to support
 multiple PCR banks

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 02:02:28PM -0500, Nayna Jain wrote:
> IMA extends its hash measurements in the TPM PCRs, based on policy.
> The existing in-kernel TPM extend function extends only the SHA1
> PCR bank. TPM 2.0 defines multiple PCR banks, to support different
> hash algorithms. The TCG TPM 2.0 Specification[1] recommends
> extending all active PCR banks to prevent malicious users from
> setting unused PCR banks with fake measurements and quoting them.
> This patch set adds support for extending all active PCR banks,
> as recommended.
> 
> The first patch implements the TPM 2.0 capability to retrieve
> the list of active PCR banks.
> 
> The second patch modifies the tpm_pcr_extend() and tpm2_pcr_extend()
> interface to support extending multiple PCR banks. The existing
> tpm_pcr_extend() interface expects only a SHA1 digest. Hence, to
> extend all active PCR banks with differing digest sizes for TPM 2.0,
> the SHA1 digest is padded with 0's as needed.
> 
> This approach is taken to maintain backwards compatibility for IMA
> in order to continue working with both TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0 without
> any changes and still comply with TCG TPM 2.0 Specification[1].

What is the plan to improve IMA so that it can use better hash
algorithms? For me this zero padding sounds like a hack.

> [1] TPM 2.0 Specification referred here is "TCG PC Client Specific
> Platform Firmware Profile for TPM 2.0"
> 
> Changelog v2:
> 
> - Patch "tpm: implement TPM 2.0 capability to get active PCR banks"
>   - defined structs definition in tpm2-cmd.c.
>   - no_of_active_banks field is removed. Instead, constant
>   TPM2_MAX_PCR_BANKS is defined.
>   - renamed tpm2_get_active_pcr_banks() to tpm2_get_pcr_allocation()
>   - removed generic function tpm2_get_capability().
> 
> - Patch "tpm: enchance TPM 2.0 PCR extend to support multiple banks"
>  - Removed tpm2.h, and defined structs common for extend and event log
>   in tpm_eventlog.h
>  - uses tpm_buf in tpm2_pcr_extend().
> 
> Nayna Jain (2):
>   tpm: implement TPM 2.0 capability to get active PCR banks
>   tpm: enhance TPM 2.0 PCR extend to support multiple banks
> 
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c |  16 ++++-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h           |   8 ++-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c      | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.h  |  15 ++++
>  4 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.5.0
>