linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 10/10] arm64: Add IMA log information in kimage used for kexec

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Message-ID: <8a573f84-732a-3591-8751-f7b08edaa01d@linux.microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:24:22 -0800
From:   Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@...ux.microsoft.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 10/10] arm64: Add IMA log information in kimage used
 for kexec

On 1/27/21 10:02 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:56:53AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> On 1/27/21 8:54 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:30:17AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>>> Address and size of the buffer containing the IMA measurement log need
>>>> to be passed from the current kernel to the next kernel on kexec.
>>>>
>>>> Add address and size fields to "struct kimage_arch" for ARM64 platform
>>>> to hold the address and size of the IMA measurement log buffer.
>>>>
>>>> Update CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE to select CONFIG_HAVE_IMA_KEXEC, if CONFIG_IMA
>>>> is enabled, to indicate that the IMA measurement log information is
>>>> present in the device tree for ARM64.
>>>>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@...ux.microsoft.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@...ux.microsoft.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@...ux.microsoft.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    arch/arm64/Kconfig             | 1 +
>>>>    arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h | 5 +++++
>>>>    2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> index 1d466addb078..ea7f7fe3dccd 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -1094,6 +1094,7 @@ config KEXEC
>>>>    config KEXEC_FILE
>>>>    	bool "kexec file based system call"
>>>>    	select KEXEC_CORE
>>>> +	select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA
>>>>    	help
>>>>    	  This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
>>>>    	  file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>>> index d24b527e8c00..2bd19ccb6c43 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
>>>> @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ struct kimage_arch {
>>>>    	void *elf_headers;
>>>>    	unsigned long elf_headers_mem;
>>>>    	unsigned long elf_headers_sz;
>>>> +
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC
>>>> +	phys_addr_t ima_buffer_addr;
>>>> +	size_t ima_buffer_size;
>>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> Why do these need to be in the arch structure instead of 'struct kimage'?
>>>
>>
>> Currently, only powerpc and, with this patch set, arm64 have support for
>> carrying forward IMA measurement list across kexec system call. The above
>> fields are used for tracking IMA measurement list.
>>
>> Do you see a reason to move these fields to "struct kimage"?
> 
> If they're gated on CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC, then it seems harmless for them to
> be added to the shared structure. Or are you saying that there are
> architectures which have CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC but do not want these fields?
> 

As far as I know, there are no other architectures that define 
CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC, but do not use these fields.

Mimi - please correct me if I am wrong.

thanks,
  -lakshmi