From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC47C433E1 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726A920704 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726026AbgGQEbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:51 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:11628 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725300AbgGQEbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:51 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0187473.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.42/8.16.0.42) with SMTP id 06H42ODm166954; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:44 -0400 Received: from pps.reinject (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 32792xvu7e-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:44 -0400 Received: from m0187473.ppops.net (m0187473.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by pps.reinject (8.16.0.36/8.16.0.36) with SMTP id 06H436Yn168882; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:44 -0400 Received: from ppma04ams.nl.ibm.com (63.31.33a9.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [169.51.49.99]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 32792xvu5c-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:44 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (ppma04ams.nl.ibm.com [127.0.0.1]) by ppma04ams.nl.ibm.com (8.16.0.42/8.16.0.42) with SMTP id 06H4U3D9020944; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:37 GMT Received: from b06avi18626390.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (b06avi18626390.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.26.192]) by ppma04ams.nl.ibm.com with ESMTP id 329nmyjgaq-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:37 +0000 Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (mk.ibm.com [9.149.105.60]) by b06avi18626390.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id 06H4UCbl64160158 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:30:12 GMT Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9365E4203F; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E81342041; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [9.85.163.162]) by d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:31:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <1594960293.27397.2.camel@linux.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] ima: Fix rule parsing bugs and extend KEXEC_CMDLINE rule support From: Mimi Zohar To: Tyler Hicks , Dmitry Kasatkin Cc: James Morris , "Serge E . Hallyn" , Lakshmi Ramasubramanian , Prakhar Srivastava , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Janne Karhunen , Eric Biederman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Casey Schaufler , Nayna Jain Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:31:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200709061911.954326-1-tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> References: <20200709061911.954326-1-tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 (3.20.5-1.fc24) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.235,18.0.687 definitions=2020-07-16_11:2020-07-16,2020-07-16 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_spam_definite policy=outbound score=100 suspectscore=0 mlxlogscore=-1000 priorityscore=1501 lowpriorityscore=0 clxscore=1015 adultscore=0 impostorscore=0 spamscore=100 malwarescore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxscore=100 phishscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2006250000 definitions=main-2007170025 Sender: linux-integrity-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 01:18 -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote: > This series ultimately extends the supported IMA rule conditionals for > the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function. As of today, there's an imbalance in > IMA language conditional support for KEXEC_CMDLINE rules in comparison > to KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK and KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK rules. The KEXEC_CMDLINE > rules do not support *any* conditionals so you cannot have a sequence of > rules like this: > > dont_measure func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK obj_type=foo_t > dont_measure func=KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK obj_type=foo_t > dont_measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE obj_type=foo_t > measure func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK > measure func=KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK > measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE > > Instead, KEXEC_CMDLINE rules can only be measured or not measured and > there's no additional flexibility in today's implementation of the > KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function. > > With this series, the above sequence of rules becomes valid and any > calls to kexec_file_load() with a kernel and initramfs inode type of > foo_t will not be measured (that includes the kernel cmdline buffer) > while all other objects given to a kexec_file_load() syscall will be > measured. There's obviously not an inode directly associated with the > kernel cmdline buffer but this patch series ties the inode based > decision making for KEXEC_CMDLINE to the kernel's inode. I think this > will be intuitive to policy authors. > > While reading IMA code and preparing to make this change, I realized > that the buffer based hook functions (KEXEC_CMDLINE and KEY_CHECK) are > quite special in comparison to longer standing hook functions. These > buffer based hook functions can only support measure actions and there > are some restrictions on the conditionals that they support. However, > the rule parser isn't enforcing any of those restrictions and IMA policy > authors wouldn't have any immediate way of knowing that the policy that > they wrote is invalid. For example, the sequence of rules above parses > successfully in today's kernel but the > "dont_measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE ..." rule is incorrectly handled in > ima_match_rules(). The dont_measure rule is *always* considered to be a > match so, surprisingly, no KEXEC_CMDLINE measurements are made. > > While making the rule parser more strict, I realized that the parser > does not correctly free all of the allocated memory associated with an > ima_rule_entry when going down some error paths. Invalid policy loaded > by the policy administrator could result in small memory leaks. > > I envision patches 1-7 going to stable. The series is ordered in a way > that has all the fixes up front, followed by cleanups, followed by the > feature patch. The breakdown of patches looks like so: > > Memory leak fixes: 1-3 > Parser strictness fixes: 4-7 > Code cleanups made possible by the fixes: 8-11 > Extend KEXEC_CMDLINE rule support: 12 Thanks, Tyler.  This is a really nice patch set.  The patches are now in the "next-integrity-testing" branch. Mimi