linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v43 01/15] Linux Random Number Generator

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:05:08 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Simo Sorce <simo@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v43 01/15] Linux Random Number Generator

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:41:33PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 19:44 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 4:08 PM Marcelo Henrique Cerri
> > <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com> wrote:
> > > > Just to confirm, this little patch here gives you FIPS certification?
> > > It does
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 7:29 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > Now, the idea of certifying the whole kernel as a FIPS cryptographic module is
> > > stupid
> 
> Not that it is not the whole kernel, but a "module boundary" is drawn
> around the crypto API and vicinity.
> It would be really nice if this whole "boundary" could be built as a
> single binary module to be loaded in the kernel in fips mode. That way
> we could update the rest of the kernel w/o rebuilding the module, but
> we are not there.

FWIW, the "FIPS module as a loadable kernel module" approach was implemented in
the Android kernel; grep for "fips140" in branch "android13-5.10" of
https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.  It's a lot of work for nothing
IMO, but the FIPS certification lab being used is happy with the approach.
Note that random.c is outside of the FIPS module with this approach.

- Eric