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authorLianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>2020-06-25 20:29:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-26 00:27:36 -0700
commitfd7af71be54271a9f03b2e6f63e4b3ac1ecd113d (patch)
tree36b6147b6029a8cafdf0b3850bdefd070d55618d /kernel
parentb9e20f0da1f5c9c68689450a8cb436c9486434c8 (diff)
kexec: do not verify the signature without the lockdown or mandatory signature
Signature verification is an important security feature, to protect system from being attacked with a kernel of unknown origin. Kexec rebooting is a way to replace the running kernel, hence need be secured carefully. In the current code of handling signature verification of kexec kernel, the logic is very twisted. It mixes signature verification, IMA signature appraising and kexec lockdown. If there is no KEXEC_SIG_FORCE, kexec kernel image doesn't have one of signature, the supported crypto, and key, we don't think this is wrong, Unless kexec lockdown is executed. IMA is considered as another kind of signature appraising method. If kexec kernel image has signature/crypto/key, it has to go through the signature verification and pass. Otherwise it's seen as verification failure, and won't be loaded. Seems kexec kernel image with an unqualified signature is even worse than those w/o signature at all, this sounds very unreasonable. E.g. If people get a unsigned kernel to load, or a kernel signed with expired key, which one is more dangerous? So, here, let's simplify the logic to improve code readability. If the KEXEC_SIG_FORCE enabled or kexec lockdown enabled, signature verification is mandated. Otherwise, we lift the bar for any kernel image. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200602045952.27487-1-lijiang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_file.c34
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index bb05fd52de85..09cc78df53c6 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -181,34 +181,19 @@ void kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
static int
kimage_validate_signature(struct kimage *image)
{
- const char *reason;
int ret;
ret = arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig(image, image->kernel_buf,
image->kernel_buf_len);
- switch (ret) {
- case 0:
- break;
+ if (ret) {
- /* Certain verification errors are non-fatal if we're not
- * checking errors, provided we aren't mandating that there
- * must be a valid signature.
- */
- case -ENODATA:
- reason = "kexec of unsigned image";
- goto decide;
- case -ENOPKG:
- reason = "kexec of image with unsupported crypto";
- goto decide;
- case -ENOKEY:
- reason = "kexec of image with unavailable key";
- decide:
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG_FORCE)) {
- pr_notice("%s rejected\n", reason);
+ pr_notice("Enforced kernel signature verification failed (%d).\n", ret);
return ret;
}
- /* If IMA is guaranteed to appraise a signature on the kexec
+ /*
+ * If IMA is guaranteed to appraise a signature on the kexec
* image, permit it even if the kernel is otherwise locked
* down.
*/
@@ -216,17 +201,10 @@ kimage_validate_signature(struct kimage *image)
security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_KEXEC))
return -EPERM;
- return 0;
-
- /* All other errors are fatal, including nomem, unparseable
- * signatures and signature check failures - even if signatures
- * aren't required.
- */
- default:
- pr_notice("kernel signature verification failed (%d).\n", ret);
+ pr_debug("kernel signature verification failed (%d).\n", ret);
}
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
#endif