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Message-ID: <496ba5fc-9c0b-a906-2373-5ac061d6da3a@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:07:05 -0400
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc: zohar@...ux.ibm.com, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
miklos@...redi.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org,
amir73il@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after
writes
On 4/6/23 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 17:24 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 16:22 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/6/23 15:37, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 15:11 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/6/23 14:46, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 17:01 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:36:41AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Correct. As long as IMA is also measuring the upper inode then it seems
>>>>>> like you shouldn't need to do anything special here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately IMA does not notice the changes. With the patch provided in the other email IMA works as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It looks like remeasurement is usually done in ima_check_last_writer.
>>>> That gets called from __fput which is called when we're releasing the
>>>> last reference to the struct file.
>>>>
>>>> You've hooked into the ->release op, which gets called whenever
>>>> filp_close is called, which happens when we're disassociating the file
>>>> from the file descriptor table.
>>>>
>>>> So...I don't get it. Is ima_file_free not getting called on your file
>>>> for some reason when you go to close it? It seems like that should be
>>>> handling this.
>>>
>>> I would ditch the original proposal in favor of this 2-line patch shown here:
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/a95f62ed-8b8a-38e5-e468-ecbde3b221af@linux.ibm.com/T/#m3bd047c6e5c8200df1d273c0ad551c645dd43232
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I think I get it. IMA is trying to use the i_version from the
>> overlayfs inode.
>>
>> I suspect that the real problem here is that IMA is just doing a bare
>> inode_query_iversion. Really, we ought to make IMA call
>> vfs_getattr_nosec (or something like it) to query the getattr routine in
>> the upper layer. Then overlayfs could just propagate the results from
>> the upper layer in its response.
>>
>> That sort of design may also eventually help IMA work properly with more
>> exotic filesystems, like NFS or Ceph.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Maybe something like this? It builds for me but I haven't tested it. It
> looks like overlayfs already should report the upper layer's i_version
> in getattr, though I haven't tested that either:
>
> -----------------------8<---------------------------
>
> [PATCH] IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get the i_version
>
> IMA currently accesses the i_version out of the inode directly when it
> does a measurement. This is fine for most simple filesystems, but can be
> problematic with more complex setups (e.g. overlayfs).
>
> Make IMA instead call vfs_getattr_nosec to get this info. This allows
> the filesystem to determine whether and how to report the i_version, and
> should allow IMA to work properly with a broader class of filesystems in
> the future.
>
> Reported-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> ---
> security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c | 9 ++++++---
> security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c
> index d3662f4acadc..c45902e72044 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
> #include <linux/fs.h>
> #include <linux/xattr.h>
> #include <linux/evm.h>
> -#include <linux/iversion.h>
> #include <linux/fsverity.h>
>
> #include "ima.h"
> @@ -246,10 +245,11 @@ int ima_collect_measurement(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> const char *filename = file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
> struct ima_max_digest_data hash;
> + struct kstat stat;
> int result = 0;
> int length;
> void *tmpbuf;
> - u64 i_version;
> + u64 i_version = 0;
>
> /*
> * Always collect the modsig, because IMA might have already collected
> @@ -268,7 +268,10 @@ int ima_collect_measurement(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
> * to an initial measurement/appraisal/audit, but was modified to
> * assume the file changed.
> */
> - i_version = inode_query_iversion(inode);
> + result = vfs_getattr_nosec(&file->f_path, &stat, STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE,
> + AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT);
> + if (!result && (stat.result_mask & STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE))
> + i_version = stat.change_cookie;
> hash.hdr.algo = algo;
> hash.hdr.length = hash_digest_size[algo];
>
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> index d66a0a36415e..365db0e43d7c 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/xattr.h>
> #include <linux/ima.h>
> -#include <linux/iversion.h>
> #include <linux/fs.h>
>
> #include "ima.h"
> @@ -164,11 +163,16 @@ static void ima_check_last_writer(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
>
> mutex_lock(&iint->mutex);
> if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1) {
> + struct kstat stat;
> +
> update = test_and_clear_bit(IMA_UPDATE_XATTR,
> &iint->atomic_flags);
> - if (!IS_I_VERSION(inode) ||
> - !inode_eq_iversion(inode, iint->version) ||
> - (iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE)) {
> + if ((iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE) ||
> + vfs_getattr_nosec(&file->f_path, &stat,
> + STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE,
> + AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT) ||
> + !(stat.result_mask & STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE) ||
> + stat.change_cookie != iint->version) {
> iint->flags &= ~(IMA_DONE_MASK | IMA_NEW_FILE);
> iint->measured_pcrs = 0;
> if (update)
I tested this in the OpenBMC setup with overlayfs acting as rootfs. It works now as expected.
Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
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