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This patch introduces a new LSM blob to the block_device structure, enabling the security subsystem to store security-sensitive data related to block devices. Currently, for a device mapper's mapped device containing a dm-verity target, critical security information such as the roothash and its signing state are not readily accessible. Specifically, while the dm-verity volume creation process passes the dm-verity roothash and its signature from userspace to the kernel, the roothash is stored privately within the dm-verity target, and its signature is discarded post-verification. This makes it extremely hard for the security subsystem to utilize these data. With the addition of the LSM blob to the block_device structure, the security subsystem can now retain and manage important security metadata such as the roothash and the signing state of a dm-verity by storing them inside the blob. Access decisions can then be based on these stored data. The implementation follows the same approach used for security blobs in other structures like struct file, struct inode, and struct superblock. The initialization of the security blob occurs after the creation of the struct block_device, performed by the security subsystem. Similarly, the security blob is freed by the security subsystem before the struct block_device is deallocated or freed. This patch also introduces a new hook security_bdev_setintegrity() to save block device's integrity data to the new LSM blob. For example, for dm-verity, it can use this hook to expose its roothash and signing state to LSMs, then LSMs can save these data into the LSM blob. Please note that the new hook should be invoked every time the security information is updated to keep these data current. For example, in dm-verity, if the mapping table is reloaded and configured to use a different dm-verity target with a new roothash and signing information, the previously stored data in the LSM blob will become obsolete. It is crucial to re-invoke the hook to refresh these data and ensure they are up to date. This necessity arises from the design of device-mapper, where a device-mapper device is first created, and then targets are subsequently loaded into it. These targets can be modified multiple times during the device's lifetime. Therefore, while the LSM blob is allocated during the creation of the block device, its actual contents are not initialized at this stage and can change substantially over time. This includes alterations from data that the LSM 'trusts' to those it does not, making it essential to handle these changes correctly. Failure to address this dynamic aspect could potentially allow for bypassing LSM checks. Signed-off-by: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@linux.microsoft.com> [PM: merge fuzz, subject line tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.