Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dm: Add verity helpers for LoadPin

From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dm: Add verity helpers for LoadPin
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 13:44:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yn1xyVmPJGQz31lN@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yn1BkO4t+CXR0nzk@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 01:19:12PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, May 11 2022 at  4:54P -0400,
> Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > Alasdar/Mike, I'd be interested in your take on adding these functions
> > to verity/DM, to get an idea whether this series has a path forward to
> > landing upstream.
> 
> I'll be reviewing your patchset now. Comments inlined below.
> 
> > On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:54:17PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > LoadPin limits loading of kernel modules, firmware and certain
> > > other files to a 'pinned' file system (typically a read-only
> > > rootfs). To provide more flexibility LoadPin is being extended
> > > to also allow loading these files from trusted dm-verity
> > > devices. For that purpose LoadPin can be provided with a list
> > > of verity root digests that it should consider as trusted.
> > > 
> > > Add a bunch of helpers to allow LoadPin to check whether a DM
> > > device is a trusted verity device. The new functions broadly
> > > fall in two categories: those that need access to verity
> > > internals (like the root digest), and the 'glue' between
> > > LoadPin and verity. The new file dm-verity-loadpin.c contains
> > > the glue functions.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Changes in v3:
> > > - none
> > > 
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - none
> > > 
> > >  drivers/md/Makefile               |  6 +++
> > >  drivers/md/dm-verity-loadpin.c    | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c     | 33 +++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/md/dm-verity.h            |  4 ++
> > >  include/linux/dm-verity-loadpin.h | 27 +++++++++++
> > >  5 files changed, 150 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 drivers/md/dm-verity-loadpin.c
> > >  create mode 100644 include/linux/dm-verity-loadpin.h
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/md/Makefile b/drivers/md/Makefile
> > > index 0454b0885b01..e12cd004d375 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/md/Makefile
> > > +++ b/drivers/md/Makefile
> > > @@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_IMA),y)
> > >  dm-mod-objs			+= dm-ima.o
> > >  endif
> > >  
> > > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_DM_VERITY),y)
> > > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_SECURITY_LOADPIN),y)
> > > +dm-mod-objs			+= dm-verity-loadpin.o
> > > +endif
> > > +endif
> > > +
> 
> Why are you extending dm-mod-objs?  Why not dm-verity-objs?

Sorry, I missed to address this comment in my earlier reply.

I don't recall why I chose dm-mod-objs initially, agreed that
dm-verity-objs seems a better fit.