[PATCH 09/24] kexec_file: Disable at runtime if securelevel has been set

[Dave Young]

On 04/06/17 at 11:49pm, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 11:05 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 04/05/17 at 09:15pm, David Howells wrote:
> > > From: Chun-Yi Lee <joeyli.kernel at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > When KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG is not enabled, kernel should not loads image
> > > through kexec_file systemcall if securelevel has been set.
> > > 
> > > This code was showed in Matthew's patch but not in git:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/13/778
> > > 
> > > Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee at suse.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> > > cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  kernel/kexec_file.c |    6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > index b118735fea9d..f6937eecd1eb 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > @@ -268,6 +268,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
> > >  	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT) || kexec_load_disabled)
> > >  		return -EPERM;
> > >  
> > > +	/* Don't permit images to be loaded into trusted kernels if we're not
> > > +	 * going to verify the signature on them
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG) && kernel_is_locked_down())
> > > +		return -EPERM;
> > > +
> > >  
> 
> IMA can be used to verify file signatures too, based on the LSM hooks
> in  kernel_read_file_from_fd().  CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG should not be
> required.

Mimi, I remember we talked somthing before about the two signature 
verification. One can change IMA policy in initramfs userspace,
also there are kernel cmdline param to disable IMA, so it can break the
lockdown? Suppose kexec boot with ima disabled cmdline param and then
kexec reboot again..

> 
> Mimi
> 
> 
> > 	/* Make sure we have a legal set of flags */
> > >  	if (flags != (flags & KEXEC_FILE_FLAGS))
> > >  		return -EINVAL;
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Dave
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