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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [RFC PATCH v5 00/11] Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:57:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8565b1430d5244eba95fc1fe0ed470b886747aaa.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1597079586.3966.34.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 10:13 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 12:35 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 08:35 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Up to now, verifying remote filesystem file integrity has been
> > > > out of scope for IMA.   With fs-verity file signatures I can at
> > > > least grasp how remote file integrity could possibly work.  I
> > > > don't understand how remote file integrity with existing IMA
> > > > formats could be supported. You might want to consider writing a
> > > > whitepaper, which could later be used as the basis for a patch
> > > > set cover letter.
> > > 
> > > I think, before this, we can help with the basics (and perhaps we
> > > should sort them out before we start documenting what we'll do).
> > 
> > I'm not opposed to doing that, but you're taking this discussion in a
> > totally different direction.  The current discussion is about NFSv4
> > supporting the existing IMA signatures, not only fs-verity
> > signatures. I'd like to understand how that is possible and for the
> > community to weigh in on whether it makes sense.
> 
> Well, I see the NFS problem as being chunk at a time, right, which is
> merkle tree, or is there a different chunk at a time mechanism we want
> to use?  IMA currently verifies signature on open/exec and then
> controls updates.  Since for NFS we only control the client, we can't
> do that on an NFS server, so we really do need verification at read
> time ... unless we're threading IMA back to the NFS server?

Yes.  I still don't see how we can support the existing IMA signatures,
which is based on the file data hash, unless the "chunk at a time
mechanism" is not a tree, but linear.

Mimi

> 
> > > The first basic is that a merkle tree allows unit at a time
> > > verification. First of all we should agree on the unit.  Since we
> > > always fault a page at a time, I think our merkle tree unit should
> > > be a page not a block. Next, we should agree where the check gates
> > > for the per page accesses should be ... definitely somewhere in
> > > readpage, I suspect and finally we should agree how the merkle tree
> > > is presented at the gate.  I think there are three ways:
> > > 
> > >    1. Ahead of time transfer:  The merkle tree is transferred and
> > > verified
> > >       at some time before the accesses begin, so we already have a
> > >       verified copy and can compare against the lower leaf.
> > >    2. Async transfer:  We provide an async mechanism to transfer
> > > the
> > >       necessary components, so when presented with a unit, we check
> > > the
> > >       log n components required to get to the root
> > >    3. The protocol actually provides the capability of 2 (like the
> > > SCSI
> > >       DIF/DIX), so to IMA all the pieces get presented instead of
> > > IMA
> > >       having to manage the tree
> > > 
> > > There are also a load of minor things like how we get the head
> > > hash, which must be presented and verified ahead of time for each
> > > of the above 3.
> > 
> >  
> > I was under the impression that IMA support for fs-verity signatures
> > would be limited to including the fs-verity signature in the
> > measurement list and verifying the fs-verity signature.   As fs-
> > verity is limited to immutable files, this could be done on file
> > open.  fs-verity would be responsible for enforcing the block/page
> > data integrity.   From a local filesystem perspective, I think that
> > is all that is necessary.
> 
> The fs-verity use case is a bit of a crippled one because it's
> immutable.  I think NFS represents more the general case where you
> can't rely on immutability and have to verify at chunk read time.  If
> we get chunk at a time working for NFS, it should work also for fs-
> verity and we wouldn't need to have two special paths.
> 
> I think, even for NFS we would only really need to log the open, so
> same as you imagine for fs-verity.  As long as the chunk read hashes
> match, we can be silent because everything is going OK, so we only need
> to determine what to do and log on mismatch (which isn't expected to
> happen for fs-verity).
> 
> > In terms of remote file systems,  the main issue is transporting and
> > storing the Merkle tree.  As fs-verity is limited to immutable files,
> > this could still be done on file open.
> 
> Right, I mentioned that in my options ... we need some "supply
> integrity" hook ... or possibly multiple hooks for a variety of
> possible methods.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-10 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-28 21:36 [RFC PATCH v5 00/11] Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE) Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 01/11] scripts: add ipe tooling to generate boot policy Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 02/11] security: add ipe lsm evaluation loop and audit system Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 03/11] security: add ipe lsm policy parser and policy loading Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 04/11] ipe: add property for trust of boot volume Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 05/11] fs: add security blob and hooks for block_device Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 22:22   ` Casey Schaufler
2020-07-28 22:40     ` Al Viro
2020-07-28 23:55       ` Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 06/11] dm-verity: move signature check after tree validation Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:50   ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-28 23:55     ` Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 07/11] dm-verity: add bdev_setsecurity hook for dm-verity signature Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 08/11] ipe: add property for signed dmverity volumes Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 09/11] dm-verity: add bdev_setsecurity hook for root-hash Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 10/11] documentation: add ipe documentation Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 10/12] ipe: add property for dmverity roothash Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 11/11] cleanup: uapi/linux/audit.h Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 11/12] documentation: add ipe documentation Deven Bowers
2020-07-28 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 12/12] cleanup: uapi/linux/audit.h Deven Bowers
2020-08-02 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH v5 00/11] Integrity Policy Enforcement LSM (IPE) Pavel Machek
2020-08-02 14:03   ` Sasha Levin
2020-08-02 14:31     ` Pavel Machek
2020-08-02 16:43       ` [dm-devel] " James Bottomley
2020-08-04 16:07         ` Deven Bowers
2020-08-05 15:01           ` James Bottomley
2020-08-05 16:59             ` James Morris
2020-08-05 18:15               ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-05 23:51                 ` James Morris
2020-08-06 14:33                   ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-07 16:41                     ` James Morris
2020-08-07 17:31                       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-07 18:40                         ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-10 20:29                           ` James Morris
2020-08-08 17:47                 ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-09 17:16                   ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-10 15:35                     ` James Bottomley
2020-08-10 16:35                       ` Mimi Zohar
2020-08-10 17:13                         ` James Bottomley
2020-08-10 17:57                           ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2020-08-10 23:36                       ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-11  5:43                         ` James Bottomley
2020-08-11 14:48                           ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-11 15:32                             ` James Bottomley
2020-08-11 19:30                               ` Pavel Machek
2020-08-12 14:45                               ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-11 15:53                             ` James Bottomley
2020-08-12 14:15                               ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-12 15:51                                 ` James Bottomley
2020-08-13 14:42                                   ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-13 15:10                                     ` James Bottomley
2020-08-14 14:21                                       ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-11 18:28                             ` James Bottomley
2020-08-12 13:56                               ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-12 15:42                                 ` James Bottomley
2020-08-13 14:21                                   ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-13 14:42                                     ` James Bottomley
2020-08-13 14:56                                       ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-11 21:03                   ` James Morris
2020-08-12 14:18                     ` Chuck Lever
2020-08-12 17:07                       ` Deven Bowers

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