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Roberto Sassu 4a804b8a45 evm: Introduce evm_hmac_disabled() to safely ignore verification errors
When a file is being created, LSMs can set the initial label with the
inode_init_security hook. If no HMAC key is loaded, the new file will have
LSM xattrs but not the HMAC. It is also possible that the file remains
without protected xattrs after creation if no active LSM provided it, or
because the filesystem does not support them.

Unfortunately, EVM will deny any further metadata operation on new files,
as evm_protect_xattr() will return the INTEGRITY_NOLABEL error if protected
xattrs exist without security.evm, INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS if no protected
xattrs exist or INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN if xattrs are not supported. This would
limit the usability of EVM when only a public key is loaded, as commands
such as cp or tar with the option to preserve xattrs won't work.

This patch introduces the evm_hmac_disabled() function to determine whether
or not it is safe to ignore verification errors, based on the ability of
EVM to calculate HMACs. If the HMAC key is not loaded, and it cannot be
loaded in the future due to the EVM_SETUP_COMPLETE initialization flag,
allowing an operation despite the attrs/xattrs being found invalid will not
make them valid.

Since the post hooks can be executed even when the HMAC key is not loaded,
this patch also ensures that the EVM_INIT_HMAC initialization flag is set
before the post hooks call evm_update_evmxattr().

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> (for ensuring EVM_INIT_HMAC is set)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
History 2021-05-21 12:48:30 -04:00
arch Two fixes for timers: 2021-05-16 09:42:13 -07:00
block block-5.13-2021-05-14 2021-05-15 08:52:30 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation evm: Refuse EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES only if an HMAC key is loaded 2021-05-21 12:47:08 -04:00
drivers Driver core fixes for 5.13-rc2 2021-05-16 10:13:14 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-05-15 09:42:27 -07:00
include evm: Introduce evm_revalidate_status() 2021-05-21 12:47:12 -04:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-05-07 00:34:51 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: spelling fix 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
kernel Two fixes for timers: 2021-05-16 09:42:13 -07:00
lib kasan: fix unit tests with CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS enabled 2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/ioremap: fix iomap_max_page_shift 2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
net mm: fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems 2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
security evm: Introduce evm_hmac_disabled() to safely ignore verification errors 2021-05-21 12:48:30 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 5.13-rc1 2021-05-07 11:40:18 -07:00
tools - Enable -Wundef for the compressed kernel build stage 2021-05-16 09:31:06 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt kvm: Cap halt polling at kvm->max_halt_poll_ns 2021-05-07 06:06:22 -04:00
.clang-format cxl for 5.12 2021-02-24 09:38:36 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes 2021-05-11 13:35:52 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS libnvdimm fixes for 5.13-rc2 2021-05-15 08:32:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.13-rc2 2021-05-16 15:27:44 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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 Restructured Text 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.