[PATCH 4/6] ima: implement functionality to measure TPM update counter

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Aug 3 14:42:16 PDT 2023


On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 11:19 -0700, Tushar Sugandhi wrote:
> Currently TPM update counter is not available external to the system,
> for instance, a remote attestation service.  It is a problem because
> the service cannot easily determine if the IMA log entries are missing.
> The IMA functionality needs to be extended to measure the TPM update
> counter from various subsystems in Linux kernel to help detect if
> the IMA log entries are missing.
> 
> Implement a function, 'ima_measure_update_counter()' which would retrieve
> the TPM update counter using the previously defined function
> 'ima_tpm_get_update_counter()'.  Format it as a string with the value 
> "update_counter=<N>;", and measure it using the function
> 'ima_measure_critical_data()'.
> 
> The function takes an event name as input, and the update counter value
> is measured as part of this event.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu at linux.microsoft.com>

Explicit TPM2 quote commands do not return the quoted PCR values or the
pcrCounter value.  Define and include a new IMA measurement record
containing the pcrCounter, other TPM info, and IMA info in the IMA
measurement list to help simplify detecting a trimmed/truncated
measurement list.

> ---
>  include/linux/ima.h               |  1 +
>  security/integrity/ima/ima.h      |  1 +
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ima.h b/include/linux/ima.h
> index 86b57757c7b1..f15f3a6a4c72 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ima.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ima.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ extern int ima_measure_critical_data(const char *event_label,
>  				     const char *event_name,
>  				     const void *buf, size_t buf_len,
>  				     bool hash, u8 *digest, size_t digest_len);
> +int ima_measure_update_counter(const char *event_name);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM
>  extern void ima_appraise_parse_cmdline(void);
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
> index 4acd0e5a830f..5484bd362237 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ int __init ima_init_digests(void);
>  int ima_lsm_policy_change(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event,
>  			  void *lsm_data);
>  int ima_tpm_get_update_counter(u32 *cpu_update_counter);
> +int ima_measure_update_counter(const char *event_name);
>  
>  /*
>   * used to protect h_table and sha_table
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> index d66a0a36415e..1bcd45cc5a6a 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> @@ -1071,6 +1071,34 @@ int ima_measure_critical_data(const char *event_label,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ima_measure_critical_data);
>  
> +#define IMA_TPM_UPDATE_CTR_BUF_SIZE 128
> +int ima_measure_update_counter(const char *event_name)
> +{
> +	int result;
> +	u32 update_counter = 0;
> +	char buf[IMA_TPM_UPDATE_CTR_BUF_SIZE];
> +	int buf_len;
> +
> +	if (!event_name)
> +		return -ENOPARAM;
> +
> +	result = ima_tpm_get_update_counter(&update_counter);
> +
> +	if (result != 0)
> +		return result;
> +
> +	scnprintf(buf, IMA_TPM_UPDATE_CTR_BUF_SIZE, "update_counter=%u;",
> +			  update_counter);
> +
> +	buf_len = strlen(buf);
> +
> +	result = ima_measure_critical_data("tpm_pcr_update_counter", event_name,
> +				  buf, buf_len, false, NULL, 0);
> 

The new record should contain everything needed to verify the
pcrCounter.  For example, each IMA measurement record updates the
pcrCounter for each TPM bank enabled.  So the number of enabled TPM
banks and number of IMA measurements should also be included in this
record.

Perhaps include a version number as well, so that if we ever want to
include other information, we could.

Mimi


> +
> +	return result;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ima_measure_update_counter);
> +
>  static int __init init_ima(void)
>  {
>  	int error;





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