Currently, for any IMA policy that requires appraisal for kernel modules e.g. ima_policy=secure_boot, PowerPC architecture specific policy, booting will fail because IMA will reject a kernel module which will be decompressed in the kernel space and then have its signature verified.
This happens because when in-kernel module decompression (CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS) is enabled, kmod will use finit_module syscall instead of init_module to load a module. And IMA mandates IMA xattr verification for finit_module unless appraise_type=imasig|modsig is specified in the rule. However currently initramfs doesn't support xattr. And IMA rule "func=MODULE_CHECK appraise_type=imasig|modsig" doesn't work either because IMA will treat to-be-decompressed kernel module as not having module signature as it can't decompress kernel module to check if signature exists. So fall back to default kernel module signature verification when we have no way to verify IMA xattr. Reported-by: Karel Srot <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <[email protected]> --- Another approach will be to make IMA decompress the kernel module to check the signature. This requires refactoring kernel module code to make the in-kernel module decompressing feature modular and seemingly more efforts are needed. A second disadvantage is it feels counter-intuitive to verify the same kernel module signature twice. And we still need to make ima_policy=secure_boot allow verifying appended module signature. Anyways, I'm open to suggestions and can try the latter approach if there are some benefits I'm not aware of or a better approach. security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c index f435eff4667f..fcc75dd1486f 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c @@ -502,9 +502,10 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func, struct ima_iint_cache *iint, enum integrity_status status = INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN; int rc = xattr_len; bool try_modsig = iint->flags & IMA_MODSIG_ALLOWED && modsig; + bool enforce_module_sig = iint->flags & IMA_DIGSIG_REQUIRED && func == MODULE_CHECK; - /* If not appraising a modsig, we need an xattr. */ - if (!(inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR) && !try_modsig) + /* If not appraising a modsig or using default module verification, we need an xattr. */ + if (!(inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR) && !try_modsig && !enforce_module_sig) return INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN; /* @@ -517,8 +518,8 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func, struct ima_iint_cache *iint, if (is_bprm_creds_for_exec(func, file)) audit_msgno = AUDIT_INTEGRITY_USERSPACE; - /* If reading the xattr failed and there's no modsig, error out. */ - if (rc <= 0 && !try_modsig) { + /* If reading the xattr failed and there's no modsig or module verification, error out. */ + if (rc <= 0 && !try_modsig && !enforce_module_sig) { if (rc && rc != -ENODATA) goto out; @@ -549,8 +550,8 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func, struct ima_iint_cache *iint, case INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN: break; case INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS: /* No EVM protected xattrs. */ - /* It's fine not to have xattrs when using a modsig. */ - if (try_modsig) + /* Fine to not have xattrs when using a modsig or default module verification. */ + if (try_modsig || enforce_module_sig) break; fallthrough; case INTEGRITY_NOLABEL: /* No security.evm xattr. */ @@ -580,6 +581,18 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func, struct ima_iint_cache *iint, rc == -ENOKEY)) rc = modsig_verify(func, modsig, &status, &cause); + /* Fall back to default kernel module signature verification */ + if (rc && enforce_module_sig) { + rc = 0; + set_module_sig_enforced(); + /* CONFIG_MODULE_SIG may be disabled */ + if (is_module_sig_enforced()) { + rc = 0; + status = INTEGRITY_PASS; + pr_debug("Fall back to default kernel module verification for %s\n", filename); + } + } + out: /* * File signatures on some filesystems can not be properly verified. base-commit: cec1e6e5d1ab33403b809f79cd20d6aff124ccfe -- 2.51.0
