linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: "David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"Mimi Zohar" <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] certs: Make blacklist_vet_description() more strict
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:23:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491f8d01-b525-2bcf-68d8-c28bfc9f1532@digikod.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YAeul+B2x6QK0NVq@kernel.org>


On 20/01/2021 05:16, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:19:05PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>> From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
>>
>> Before exposing this new key type to user space, make sure that only
>> meaningful blacklisted hashes are accepted.  This is also checked for
>> builtin blacklisted hashes, but a following commit make sure that the
>> user will notice (at built time) and will fix the configuration if it
>> already included errors.
>>
>> Check that a blacklist key description starts with a valid prefix and
>> then a valid hexadecimal string.
>>
>> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
>> Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> 
> In this I'm not as worried about ABI, i.e. you don't have any reason
> supply any other data, which doesn't follow these ruels, whereas there
> could very well be a script that does format hex "incorrectly".

I think I answered this comment in patch 2/10: there is no ABI breakage,
it only prepares for safe dynamic key addition. Patch 10/10 enables to
avoid using incorrect/useless/mis-leading hashes and force users to fix
these hashes (that were not taken into account)

> 
> /Jarkko
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-20 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-14 15:18 [PATCH v3 00/10] Enable root to update the blacklist keyring Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] certs/blacklist: fix kernel doc interface issue Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  3:39   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] certs: Fix blacklisted hexadecimal hash string check Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  3:43   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:12     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20 23:44       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] PKCS#7: Fix missing include Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  3:44   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  3:55   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:15     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20 23:45       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  5:15   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:17     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20 23:48       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] certs: Make blacklist_vet_description() more strict Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  4:16   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:23     ` Mickaël Salaün [this message]
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] certs: Factor out the blacklist hash creation Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] certs: Check that builtin blacklist hashes are valid Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20  5:19   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:57     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-20 23:53       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-21  9:18         ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-21 15:21           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] certs: Allow root user to append signed hashes to the blacklist keyring Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-15 13:06   ` Mimi Zohar
2021-01-20  5:23   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20 11:24     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-14 15:19 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] tools/certs: Add print-cert-tbs-hash.sh Mickaël Salaün
2021-01-15  9:28 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Enable root to update the blacklist keyring Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=491f8d01-b525-2bcf-68d8-c28bfc9f1532@digikod.net \
    --to=mic@digikod.net \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
    --cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
    --cc=herbert@gondor.apana.org.au \
    --cc=jarkko@kernel.org \
    --cc=jmorris@namei.org \
    --cc=keyrings@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mic@linux.microsoft.com \
    --cc=serge@hallyn.com \
    --cc=zohar@linux.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).