linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Composefs: an opportunistically sharing verified image filesystem

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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxhHnvznz_wN7OdaYeF0WSMV-S87Az4uLRoREPe8oTM8eQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2023 22:06:34 +0200
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     Alexander Larsson <alexl@...hat.com>, gscrivan@...hat.com,
        brauner@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david@...morbit.com,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Composefs: an opportunistically sharing verified
 image filesystem

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 9:32 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 18:16, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > it's not overlay{erofs+erofs}
> > it's overlay{erofs+ext4} (or another fs-verity [1] supporting fs)
> > the lower layer is a mutable fs with /objects/ dir containing
> > the blobs.
> >
> > The way to ensure the integrity of erofs is to setup dm-verity at
> > erofs mount time.
> >
> > The way to ensure the integrity of the blobs is to store an fs-verity
> > signature of each blob file in trusted.overlay.verify xattr on the
> > metacopy and for overlayfs to enable fsverity on the blob file before
> > allowing access to the lowerdata.
> >
> > At least this is my understanding of the security model.
>
> So this should work out of the box, right?
>

Mostly. IIUC, overlayfs just needs to verify the signature on
open to fulfill the chain of trust, see cfs_open_file():
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/9b799ec7e403ba814e7bc097b1e8bd5f7662d596.1674227308.git.alexl@redhat.com/

Thanks,
Amir.