linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec

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Message-ID: <cec0d90e9d70719cf3dee203d5b975b9e420d27f.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:54:02 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org" <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec

On Thu, 2022-06-30 at 08:36 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On kexec file load, the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA)
> subsystem may verify the IMA signature of the kernel and initramfs, and
> measure it. The command line parameters passed to the kernel in the
> kexec call may also be measured by IMA.
> 
> A remote attestation service can verify a TPM quote based on the TPM
> event log, the IMA measurement list and the TPM PCR data. This can
> be achieved only if the IMA measurement log is carried over from the
> current kernel to the next kernel across the kexec call.
> 
> PowerPC and ARM64 both achieve this using device tree with a
> "linux,ima-kexec-buffer" node. x86 platforms generally don't make use of
> device tree, so use the setup_data mechanism to pass the IMA buffer to
> the new kernel.
> 
> (Mimi, Baoquan, I haven't included your reviewed-bys because this has
>  changed the section annotations to __init and Boris reasonably enough
>  wants to make sure IMA folk are happy before taking this update.)

FYI, comments like this should be added before the patch changelog
(after the '---' separator).

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YmKyvlF3my1yWTvK@noodles-fedora-PC23Y6EG

Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com> # IMA function
definitions