From: Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
To: david.safford@gmail.com
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.ibm.com>,
"Wiseman, Monty (GE Global Research, US)" <monty.wiseman@ge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ima: export the measurement list when needed
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:48:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE=NcrYEyfj9028aP+MYAnFJdX9NJ3Lvy1wiECbNv59HRaDMLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a8c2fb4698eaa72be219413e373c5829a7cd652.camel@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:46 PM <david.safford@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some systems can end up carrying lots of entries in the ima
> > measurement list. Since every entry is using a bit of kernel
> > memory, allow the sysadmin to export the measurement list to
> > the filesystem to free up some memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
>
> I like this approach, as it will work easily for measurement lists in
> any format, and it will work for user or kernel triggering.
Yes, that was the point..
> I'm getting an OOPS, though, whenever I write a filename to the
> securityfs file (e.g. echo /var/log/ima.log > list_name).
> Here's the relevant from syslog:
>
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00005650a0e7fe30
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0001) - permissions violation
>
> Oops: 0001 [#1] SMP NOPTI
>
> RIP: 0010:ima_write_list_name+0x35/0x114
>
> I haven't had time to debug this. Any suggestions?
Interesting. I'm not a X86 man, but it looks like a SMAP trap to me.
In other words, the kernel was not allowed to read that
"/var/log/ima.log" string as SMAP protection was active for that piece
of memory. I was under the impression that the SMAP is disabled while
the copy_from_user is running..
I'll try on the X86 hardware and see if I can reproduce, maybe its off
by one read or something. Only X86 target I tested was QEMU.
> > +#define secfs_mnt "/sys/kernel/security"
> > +#define am_filename "/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements"
>
> You probably really want to export the binary data, as that's
> what's needed for attestation. (Or both, but that's trickier.)
That's why the file name was left as an argument to the export
function; you can export either one. I suppose we'd need some setting
to tell it which one to export.
--
Janne
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-27 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 11:17 [PATCH v2] ima: export the measurement list when needed Janne Karhunen
2020-01-10 8:48 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-01-22 15:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-01-23 8:41 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-01-26 17:01 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-01-27 9:03 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-02-06 14:13 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-10 8:04 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-02-10 15:26 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-10 18:18 ` david.safford
2020-02-10 20:24 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-11 8:06 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-02-11 16:10 ` david.safford
2020-02-11 23:10 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-12 21:08 ` david.safford
2020-02-13 1:03 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-13 6:41 ` Janne Karhunen
2020-02-18 15:36 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-02-13 20:11 ` Ken Goldman
2020-02-18 14:50 ` david.safford
2020-01-24 14:46 ` david.safford
2020-01-27 8:48 ` Janne Karhunen [this message]
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