linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] tpm: sanity check the log version before using it

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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXF9rpKJV5Df34F_oYZ1ZVbQ8Lumiw0ZOUnpVH6Dffq-Pg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:44:07 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, leitao@...ian.org, usamaarif642@...il.com, 
	sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] tpm: sanity check the log version before using it

On Fri, 13 Sept 2024 at 15:39, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Sept 2024 at 15:57, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 09:40:30AM +0300, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > > Hi Gregory,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 23:28, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If the log version is not sane (0 or >2), don't attempt to use
> > > > the rest of the log values for anything to avoid potential corruption.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c | 9 +++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
> > > > index 6e03eed0dc6f..9a080887a3e0 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
> > > > @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ int __init efi_tpm_eventlog_init(void)
> > > >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > > >         }
> > > >
> > > > +       if (!log_tbl->version ||
> > > > +           log_tbl->version > EFI_TCG2_EVENT_LOG_FORMAT_TCG_2) {
> > > > +               pr_err(FW_BUG "TPM Events table version invalid (%x)\n",
> > > > +                      log_tbl->version);
> > > > +               early_memunmap(log_tbl, sizeof(*log_tbl));
> > > > +               efi.tpm_log = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR;
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > I don't think we need this check at all. Did you actually see this happening?
> > > efi_retrieve_eventlog() that runs during the efistub tries to retrieve
> > > the log and the EFI protocol itself explicitly says that the firmware
> > > *must* return EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER if the event log is not in 1.2 or
> > > 2.0 format. If the firmware does something wrong, we should report the
> > > FW BUG in that function, instead of installing the config tables Linux
> > > uses internally to handover the log and catching it late.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > /Ilias
> > >
> >
> > We saw this happen and discovered it was a disagreement between EFI/OS/kexec
> > causing the table to be overwritten during kexec.  We've since found a fix for
> > that.  So the result was that it appeared the firmware was doing something
> > wrong. The sanity check at least allowed us to boot without immediately
> > crashing - because the tables don't get reinstalled, they get re-used
> > (at least that's by best understanding of the whole interaction).
> >
> > If the check seems superfluous, i can drop it.
>
> Ok, that explains why it wasn't caught earlier at least. I would
> prefer dropping it tbh, but I am going to defer to Ard for that.
>
> If we agree that this needs to go in btw, I think you should refactor
> it a bit. That function already defines an out: label, which unmaps
> memory. So you can rewrite the above as
>
> If(....) {
>     ret = -EINVAL;
>     efi.tpm_log = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR;
>    goto out;
> }
>

Validating a table that was created by the EFI stub seems redundant.
If the version check needs to be tightened, please do so in
efi_retrieve_tcg2_eventlog() (in the stub).