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Date:   Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:40:37 -0400
From:   Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] ima: Use tpm_chip_find() and access TPM functions
 using it

On 06/21/2018 11:25 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:59:55PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> On 06/21/2018 04:53 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 16:42 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>> Rather than accessing the TPM functions using a NULL pointer, which
>>>> causes a lookup for a suitable chip every time, get a hold of a tpm_chip
>>>> and access the TPM functions using this chip. We call the tpm_chip
>>>> ima_tpm_chip and protect it, once initialization is done, using a
>>>> rw_semaphore called ima_tpm_chip_lock.
>>>>
>>>> Use ima_shutdown to release the tpm_chip.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>>   security/integrity/ima/ima.h        |  3 +++
>>>>   security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>>>>   security/integrity/ima/ima_init.c   | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>>>>   security/integrity/ima/ima_queue.c  |  7 +++++--
>>>>   4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
>>>> index 354bb5716ce3..53a88d578ca5 100644
>>>> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
>>>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>>>>   #include <linux/hash.h>
>>>>   #include <linux/tpm.h>
>>>>   #include <linux/audit.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/rwsem.h>
>>>>   #include <crypto/hash_info.h>
>>>>
>>>>   #include "../integrity.h"
>>>> @@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ extern int ima_policy_flag;
>>>>   extern int ima_used_chip;
>>>>   extern int ima_hash_algo;
>>>>   extern int ima_appraise;
>>>> +extern struct rw_semaphore ima_tpm_chip_lock;
>>>> +extern struct tpm_chip *ima_tpm_chip;
>>> ima_add_templatE_entry() synchronizes appending a measurement to the
>>> measurement list and extending the TPM by taking a lock.  Do we really
>>> need to introduce another lock?
>> This lock protects the ima_tpm_chip from going from != NULL to NULL in the
>> ima_shutdown function. Basically, a global pointer accessed by concurrent
>> threads should be protected if its value can change. However, in this case
>> ima_shutdown would be called so late that there shouldn't be concurrency
>> anymore. Though, I found it better to protect it. Maybe someone else has an
>> opinion?
> Why have a shutdown block? There is no harm in holding a kref if the
> machine is shutting down.

Looking around at other drivers' usage of the reboot notifier, I find 
other drivers as well that use spinlocks or mutexes during the shutdown. 
Besides that, we do have the shutdown block already when device_shutdown 
calls tpm_class_shutdown() and we get the ops_sem.

     Stefan
>
> Jason
>