From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific policies
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:56:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1583161018.8544.96.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_E9O05xB7i2Y8KiMJUjtZoq54GxSbHnyTFePcF6fqQNA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 15:52 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 15:48, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 14:10 -0500, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > > Every time a new architecture defines the IMA architecture specific
> > > functions - arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_ima_get_policy(), the IMA
> > > include file needs to be updated. To avoid this "noise", this patch
> > > defines a new IMA Kconfig IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT option, allowing
> > > the different architectures to select it.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > > ---
> > > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > > arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > include/linux/ima.h | 3 +--
> > > security/integrity/ima/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
> > > 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > > index 497b7d0b2d7e..b8ce1b995633 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > > @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ config PPC
> > > select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> > > select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> > > select VIRT_TO_BUS if !PPC64
> > > + select IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if PPC_SECURE_BOOT
> > > #
> > > # Please keep this list sorted alphabetically.
> > > #
> > > @@ -978,7 +979,6 @@ config PPC_SECURE_BOOT
> > > prompt "Enable secure boot support"
> > > bool
> > > depends on PPC_POWERNV
> > > - depends on IMA_ARCH_POLICY
> > > help
> > > Systems with firmware secure boot enabled need to define security
> > > policies to extend secure boot to the OS. This config allows a user
> > > diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> > > index 8abe77536d9d..90ff3633ade6 100644
> > > --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> > > @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ config S390
> > > select ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED
> > > select SWIOTLB
> > > select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
> > > + select IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT
> > >
> > >
> > > config SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > > index beea77046f9b..cafa66313fe2 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > > @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ config X86
> > > select VIRT_TO_BUS
> > > select X86_FEATURE_NAMES if PROC_FS
> > > select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS if PROC_FS
> > > + select IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI
> >
> > Not everyone is interested in enabling IMA or requiring IMA runtime
> > policies. With this patch, enabling IMA_ARCH_POLICY is therefore
> > still left up to the person building the kernel. As a result, I'm
> > seeing the following warning, which is kind of cool.
> >
> > WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for
> > IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT
> > Depends on [n]: INTEGRITY [=y] && IMA [=y] && IMA_ARCH_POLICY [=n]
> > Selected by [y]:
> > - X86 [=y] && EFI [=y]
> >
> > Ard, Michael, Martin, just making sure this type of warning is
> > acceptable before upstreaming this patch. I would appreciate your
> > tags.
> >
>
> Ehm, no, warnings like these are not really acceptable. It means there
> is an inconsistency in the way the Kconfig dependencies are defined.
>
> Does this help:
>
> select IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT if EFI && IMA_ARCH_POLICY
>
> ?
Yes, that's fine for x86. Michael, Martin, do you want something
similar or would you prefer actually selecting IMA_ARCH_POLICY?
Mimi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-26 19:10 [PATCH] ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific policies Nayna Jain
2020-02-26 19:21 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-02-26 20:36 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-27 19:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-03-02 14:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-03-02 14:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-03-02 14:56 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2020-03-02 21:21 ` Heiko Carstens
2020-03-02 23:23 ` Michael Ellerman
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