linux-kernel - Re: [PULL REQUEST] Lock down patches

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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:33:16 -0800
From:   Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>
To:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     jmorris@...ei.org,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] Lock down patches

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 17:01 -0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> > > That's not a valid reason for preventing systems that do use IMA for
> > > verifying the kexec kernel image signature or kernel module signatures
> > > from enabling "lock down".  This just means that there needs to be
> > > some coordination between the different signature verification
> > > methods. [1][2]
> >
> > I agree, but the current form of the integration makes it impossible
> > for anyone using an IMA-enabled kernel (but not using IMA) to do
> > anything unless they have IMA signatures. It's a problem we need to
> > solve, I just don't think it's a problem we need to solve before
> > merging the patchset.
>
> That's simply not true.  Have you even looked at the IMA architecture
> patches?

Sorry, I think we're talking at cross purposes - I was referring to
your patch "ima: require secure_boot rules in lockdown mode"
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/commit/?h=efi-lock-down&id=7fa3734bd31a4b3fe71358fcba8d4878e5005b7f).
If the goal is just to use the architecture rules then I don't see any
conflict, and as far as I can tell things would just work as is if I
drop the ima portion from "kexec_file: Restrict at runtime if the
kernel is locked down"? Apologies, I'd thought that the secure_boot
ruleset was still intended to be used in a lockdown environment.