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evm: Refuse EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES only if an HMAC key is loaded 

commit 9acc89d31f0c94c8e573ed61f3e4340bbd526d0c upstream.

EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES is an EVM initialization flag that can be set to
temporarily disable metadata verification until all xattrs/attrs necessary
to verify an EVM portable signature are copied to the file. This flag is
cleared when EVM is initialized with an HMAC key, to avoid that the HMAC is
calculated on unverified xattrs/attrs.

Currently EVM unnecessarily denies setting this flag if EVM is initialized
with a public key, which is not a concern as it cannot be used to trust
xattrs/attrs updates. This patch removes this limitation.

Fixes: ae1ba1676b ("EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16.x
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Roberto Sassu 2021-05-14 17:27:44 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent d7dfaf13d2
commit 74e9d920f2
2 changed files with 28 additions and 6 deletions
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Documentation/ABI/testing/evm
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@ -42,8 +42,30 @@ Description:
modification of EVM-protected metadata and
disable all further modification of policy
Note that once a key has been loaded, it will no longer be
possible to enable metadata modification.
Echoing a value is additive, the new value is added to the
existing initialization flags.
For example, after::
echo 2 ><securityfs>/evm
another echo can be performed::
echo 1 ><securityfs>/evm
and the resulting value will be 3.
Note that once an HMAC key has been loaded, it will no longer
be possible to enable metadata modification. Signaling that an
HMAC key has been loaded will clear the corresponding flag.
For example, if the current value is 6 (2 and 4 set)::
echo 1 ><securityfs>/evm
will set the new value to 3 (4 cleared).
Loading an HMAC key is the only way to disable metadata
modification.
Until key loading has been signaled EVM can not create
or validate the 'security.evm' xattr, but returns

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security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
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@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ static ssize_t evm_write_key(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (!i || (i & ~EVM_INIT_MASK) != 0)
return -EINVAL;
/* Don't allow a request to freshly enable metadata writes if
* keys are loaded.
/*
* Don't allow a request to enable metadata writes if
* an HMAC key is loaded.
*/
if ((i & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES) &&
((evm_initialized & EVM_KEY_MASK) != 0) &&
!(evm_initialized & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES))
(evm_initialized & EVM_INIT_HMAC) != 0)
return -EPERM;
if (i & EVM_INIT_HMAC) {