linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] LoadPin: Enable loading from trusted dm-verity devices

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Message-ID: <YoVMX4pDDIN1vmH8@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 15:43:27 -0400
From:   Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] LoadPin: Enable loading from trusted dm-verity
 devices

On Wed, May 18 2022 at  3:23P -0400,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 04:34:54PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > As of now LoadPin restricts loading of kernel files to a single pinned
> > filesystem, typically the rootfs. This works for many systems, however it
> > can result in a bloated rootfs (and OTA updates) on platforms where
> > multiple boards with different hardware configurations use the same rootfs
> > image. Especially when 'optional' files are large it may be preferable to
> > download/install them only when they are actually needed by a given board.
> > Chrome OS uses Downloadable Content (DLC) [1] to deploy certain 'packages'
> > at runtime. As an example a DLC package could contain firmware for a
> > peripheral that is not present on all boards. DLCs use dm-verity [2] to
> > verify the integrity of the DLC content.
> 
> For the coming v5 (which will fix the 0-day reports), if I can get some
> Acks from the dm folks, I can carry this with other loadpin changes in
> my tree. Though I'm fine with this going via the dm tree, too:
> 
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

I'll review it once it's posted.

But I'm going to reply to v4's 1/3 now.