From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
Cc: "David Gstir" <david@sigma-star.at>,
"Aymen Sghaier" <aymen.sghaier@nxp.com>,
"Mimi Zohar" <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
"Jan Luebbe" <j.luebbe@pengutronix.de>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
"Steffen Trumtrar" <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
"Udit Agarwal" <udit.agarwal@nxp.com>,
"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"Horia Geantă" <horia.geanta@nxp.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"Sumit Garg" <sumit.garg@linaro.org>,
"James Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Franck LENORMAND" <franck.lenormand@nxp.com>,
"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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"Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>,
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"Sascha Hauer" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:36:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9200d46d-94a2-befd-e9b0-93036e56eb8a@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+vNU225mgHHg00r67f1L6bEub+_h55hCBAMhCq2rd8kWU-qg@mail.gmail.com>
On 20.08.21 22:20, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 9:20 AM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>> On 20.08.21 17:39, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>> Thanks for your work!
>>>
>>> I've been asked to integrate the capability of using CAAM to
>>> blob/deblob data to an older 5.4 kernel such as NXP's downstream
>>> vendor kernel does [1] and I'm trying to understand how your series
>>> works. I'm not at all familiar with the Linux Key Management API's or
>>> trusted keys. Can you provide an example of how this can be used for
>>> such a thing?
>>
>> Here's an example with dm-crypt:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/5d44e50e-4309-830b-79f6-f5d888b1ef69@pengutronix.de/
>>
>> dm-crypt is a bit special at the moment, because it has direct support for
>> trusted keys. For interfacing with other parts of the kernel like ecryptfs
>> or EVM, you have to create encrypted keys rooted to the trusted keys and use
>> those. The kernel documentation has an example:
>>
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.13/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.html
>>
>> If you backport this series, you can include the typo fix spotted by David.
>>
>> I'll send out a revised series, but given that a regression fix I want to
>> rebase on hasn't been picked up for 3 weeks now, I am not in a hurry.
>>
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> I'm still trying to understand the keyctl integration with caam. For
> the 'data' param to keyctl you are using tings like 'new <len>' and
> 'load <data>'. Where are these 'commands' identified?
Search for match_table_t in security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_core.c
> I may still be missing something. I'm using 4.14-rc6 with your series
> and seeing the following:
That's an odd version to backport stuff to..
> # cat /proc/cmdline
> trusted.source=caam
> # keyctl add trusted mykey 'new 32' @s)# create new trusted key named
> 'mykey' of 32 bytes in the session keyring
> 480104283
> # keyctl print 480104283 # dump the key
> keyctl_read_alloc: Unknown error 126
> ^^^ not clear what this is
Not sure what returns -ENOKEY for you. I haven't been using trusted
keys on v4.14, but you can try tracing the keyctl syscall.
Cheers,
Ahmad
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-20 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 16:48 [PATCH 0/4] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Ahmad Fatoum
2021-07-21 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] KEYS: trusted: allow users to use kernel RNG for key material Ahmad Fatoum
2021-07-22 6:17 ` Sumit Garg
2021-07-21 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] KEYS: trusted: allow trust sources " Ahmad Fatoum
2021-07-22 6:31 ` Sumit Garg
2021-08-09 7:52 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-09 9:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-10 5:24 ` Sumit Garg
2021-07-21 16:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] crypto: caam - add in-kernel interface for blob generator Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-10 11:29 ` David Gstir
2021-08-11 10:22 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-11 10:43 ` David Gstir
2021-07-21 16:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-06 15:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-09 9:35 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-09 10:16 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-10 11:28 ` David Gstir
2021-08-20 16:25 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-20 15:39 ` Tim Harvey
2021-08-20 16:19 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-20 20:20 ` Tim Harvey
2021-08-20 20:36 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2021-08-20 21:19 ` Tim Harvey
2021-08-23 13:29 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-23 17:50 ` Tim Harvey
2021-08-24 7:33 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-08-24 15:23 ` Tim Harvey
2021-08-25 9:34 ` Ahmad Fatoum
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