The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 891163adf180bc369b2f11c9dfce6d2758d2a5bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GUO Zihua guozihua@huawei.com Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 10:16:19 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ima: remove the IMA_TEMPLATE Kconfig option
The original 'ima' measurement list template contains a hash, defined as 20 bytes, and a null terminated pathname, limited to 255 characters. Other measurement list templates permit both larger hashes and longer pathnames. When the "ima" template is configured as the default, a new measurement list template (ima_template=) must be specified before specifying a larger hash algorithm (ima_hash=) on the boot command line.
To avoid this boot command line ordering issue, remove the legacy "ima" template configuration option, allowing it to still be specified on the boot command line.
The root cause of this issue is that during the processing of ima_hash, we would try to check whether the hash algorithm is compatible with the template. If the template is not set at the moment we do the check, we check the algorithm against the configured default template. If the default template is "ima", then we reject any hash algorithm other than sha1 and md5.
For example, if the compiled default template is "ima", and the default algorithm is sha1 (which is the current default). In the cmdline, we put in "ima_hash=sha256 ima_template=ima-ng". The expected behavior would be that ima starts with ima-ng as the template and sha256 as the hash algorithm. However, during the processing of "ima_hash=", "ima_template=" has not been processed yet, and hash_setup would check the configured hash algorithm against the compiled default: ima, and reject sha256. So at the end, the hash algorithm that is actually used will be sha1.
With template "ima" removed from the configured default, we ensure that the default tempalte would at least be "ima-ng" which allows for basically any hash algorithm.
This change would not break the algorithm compatibility checks for IMA.
Fixes: 4286587dccd43 ("ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template") Signed-off-by: GUO Zihua guozihua@huawei.com Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.ibm.com
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig index f3a9cc201c8c..7249f16257c7 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig +++ b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig @@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ choice hash, defined as 20 bytes, and a null terminated pathname, limited to 255 characters. The 'ima-ng' measurement list template permits both larger hash digests and longer - pathnames. + pathnames. The configured default template can be replaced + by specifying "ima_template=" on the boot command line.
- config IMA_TEMPLATE - bool "ima" config IMA_NG_TEMPLATE bool "ima-ng (default)" config IMA_SIG_TEMPLATE @@ -82,7 +81,6 @@ endchoice config IMA_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE string depends on IMA - default "ima" if IMA_TEMPLATE default "ima-ng" if IMA_NG_TEMPLATE default "ima-sig" if IMA_SIG_TEMPLATE
@@ -102,19 +100,19 @@ choice
config IMA_DEFAULT_HASH_SHA256 bool "SHA256" - depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y && !IMA_TEMPLATE + depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
config IMA_DEFAULT_HASH_SHA512 bool "SHA512" - depends on CRYPTO_SHA512=y && !IMA_TEMPLATE + depends on CRYPTO_SHA512=y
config IMA_DEFAULT_HASH_WP512 bool "WP512" - depends on CRYPTO_WP512=y && !IMA_TEMPLATE + depends on CRYPTO_WP512=y
config IMA_DEFAULT_HASH_SM3 bool "SM3" - depends on CRYPTO_SM3=y && !IMA_TEMPLATE + depends on CRYPTO_SM3=y endchoice
config IMA_DEFAULT_HASH