lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:01:46 -0500
From: "Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@...rtussolutions.com>
To: Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen@...ineon.com>,
 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
 Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@...bus.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
 linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@...cle.com>,
 Kanth Ghatraju <kanth.ghatraju@...cle.com>, Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: make locality handling resilient

On 1/17/24 03:44, Alexander Steffen wrote:
> On 15.01.2024 02:15, Daniel P. Smith wrote:
>> Commit 933bfc5ad213 introduced the use of a locality counter to 
>> control when
>> locality request was actually sent to the TPM. This locality counter 
>> created a
>> hard enforcement that the TPM had no active locality at the time of 
>> the driver
>> initialization. The reality is that this may not always be the case 
>> coupled
>> with the fact that the commit indiscriminately decremented the counter 
>> created
>> the condition for integer underflow of the counter. The underflow was 
>> triggered
>> by the first pair of request/relinquish calls made in 
>> tpm_tis_init_core and all
>> subsequent calls to request/relinquished calls would have the counter 
>> flipping
>> between the underflow value and 0. The result is that it appeared all 
>> calls to
>> request/relinquish were successful, but they were not. The end result 
>> is that
>> the locality that was active when the driver loaded would always 
>> remain active,
>> to include after the driver shutdown. This creates a significant issue 
>> when
>> using Intel TXT and Locality 2 is active at boot. After the GETSEC[SEXIT]
>> instruction is called, the PCH will close access to Locality 2 MMIO 
>> address
>> space, leaving the TPM locked in Locality 2 with no means to 
>> relinquish the
>> locality until system reset.
>>
>> The commit seeks to address this situation through three changes.
> 
> Could you split this up into multiple patches then, so that they can be 
> discussed separately?

Gladly, but individually none of these fully address the situation.

>> The first is
>> to walk the localities during initialization and close any open 
>> localities to
>> ensure the TPM is in the assumed state. Next is to put guards around the
>> counter and the requested locality to ensure they remain within valid 
>> values.
>> The last change is to make the request locality functions be 
>> consistent in
>> their return values. The functions will either return the locality 
>> requested if
>> successful or a negative error code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Smith <dpsmith@...rtussolutions.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@...cle.com>
>> Reported-by: Kanth Ghatraju <kanth.ghatraju@...cle.com>
>> Fixes: 933bfc5ad213 ("tpm, tpm: Implement usage counter for locality")
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c     |  2 +-
>>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>>   include/linux/tpm.h             |  2 ++
>>   3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
>> index 42b1062e33cd..e7293f85335a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int tpm_request_locality(struct tpm_chip *chip)
>>                  return rc;
>>
>>          chip->locality = rc;
>> -       return 0;
>> +       return chip->locality;
>>   }
>>
>>   static void tpm_relinquish_locality(struct tpm_chip *chip)
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c 
>> b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> index 1b350412d8a6..c8b9b0b199dc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(struct 
>> tpm_chip *chip, int l)
>>          struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
>>
>>          mutex_lock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>> -       priv->locality_count--;
>> +       if (priv->locality_count > 0)
>> +               priv->locality_count--;
>>          if (priv->locality_count == 0)
>>                  __tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(priv, l);
>>          mutex_unlock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>> @@ -226,18 +227,21 @@ static int __tpm_tis_request_locality(struct 
>> tpm_chip *chip, int l)
>>                          tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT);
>>                  } while (time_before(jiffies, stop));
>>          }
>> -       return -1;
>> +       return -EBUSY;
>>   }
>>
>>   static int tpm_tis_request_locality(struct tpm_chip *chip, int l)
>>   {
>>          struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
>> -       int ret = 0;
>> +       int ret = -EIO;
>> +
>> +       if (l > TPM_MAX_LOCALITY)
>> +               return -EINVAL;
>>
>>          mutex_lock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>>          if (priv->locality_count == 0)
>>                  ret = __tpm_tis_request_locality(chip, l);
>> -       if (!ret)
>> +       if (ret >= 0)
>>                  priv->locality_count++;
>>          mutex_unlock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>>          return ret;
> 
> This line seems to be the most important change, that fixes the 
> locality_count handling for localities != 0. It could already be 
> sufficient to fix your original problem. I'm not sure all the other 
> changes are really necessary.

It do not believe this fully address the issue. It does stop the 
underflow but locality still is not being properly tracked.

>> @@ -1108,7 +1112,7 @@ int tpm_tis_core_init(struct device *dev, struct 
>> tpm_tis_data *priv, int irq,
>>          u32 intmask;
>>          u32 clkrun_val;
>>          u8 rid;
>> -       int rc, probe;
>> +       int rc, probe, locality;
>>          struct tpm_chip *chip;
>>
>>          chip = tpmm_chip_alloc(dev, &tpm_tis);
>> @@ -1169,6 +1173,12 @@ int tpm_tis_core_init(struct device *dev, 
>> struct tpm_tis_data *priv, int irq,
>>                  goto out_err;
>>          }
>>
>> +       /* It is not safe to assume localities are closed on startup */
>> +       for (locality = 0; locality <= TPM_MAX_LOCALITY; locality++) {
>> +               if (check_locality(chip, locality))
>> +                       tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(chip, locality);
>> +       }
>> +
>>          /* Take control of the TPM's interrupt hardware and shut it 
>> off */
>>          rc = tpm_tis_read32(priv, TPM_INT_ENABLE(priv->locality), 
>> &intmask);
>>          if (rc < 0)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/tpm.h b/include/linux/tpm.h
>> index 4ee9d13749ad..f2651281f02e 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/tpm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/tpm.h
>> @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct tpm_chip_seqops {
>>          const struct seq_operations *seqops;
>>   };
>>
>> +#define TPM_MAX_LOCALITY               4
>> +
>>   struct tpm_chip {
>>          struct device dev;
>>          struct device devs;
>> -- 
>> 2.30.2
>>

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ