linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] ima: check against blacklisted hashes for files with modsig

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Message-ID: <1571587740.5104.10.camel@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:09:00 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...nel.org>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>,
        Matthew Garret <matthew.garret@...ula.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@...ux.ibm.com>,
        George Wilson <gcwilson@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Elaine Palmer <erpalmer@...ibm.com>,
        Eric Ricther <erichte@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@...il.com>,
        Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva02@...il.com>,
        Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@...ux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] ima: check against blacklisted hashes for files
 with modsig

On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 12:06 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 14:06 -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > Asymmetric private keys are used to sign multiple files. The kernel
> > currently support checking against blacklisted keys. However, if the
> > public key is blacklisted, any file signed by the blacklisted key will
> > automatically fail signature verification. We might not want to blacklist
> > all the files signed by a particular key, but just a single file.
> > Blacklisting the public key is not fine enough granularity.
> > 
> > This patch adds support for checking against the blacklisted hash of the
> > file based on the IMA policy. The blacklisted hash is the file hash
> > without the appended signature. Defined is a new policy option
> > "appraise_flag=check_blacklist".
> 
> Please add an example of how to blacklist a file with an appended
> signature.  The simplest example that works on x86 as well as Power
> would be blacklisting a kernel module.  The example should include
> calculating the kernel module hash without the appended signature,
> enabling the Kconfig option (CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST), and
> the blacklist hash format (eg. "bin:<file hash>").

And of course, the IMA appraise kernel module policy rule containing
"appraise_flag=check_blacklist".

thanks,

Mimi