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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IMA: Handle early boot data measurement
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On 8/25/20 8:40 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 16:12 -0700, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> The current implementation of early boot measurement in
>> the IMA subsystem is very specific to asymmetric keys. It does not
>> handle early boot measurement of data from other subsystems such as
>> Linux Security Module (LSM), Device-Mapper, etc. As a result data,
>> provided by these subsystems during system boot are not measured by IMA.
>>
>> Update the early boot key measurement to handle any early boot data.
>> Refactor the code from ima_queue_keys.c to a new file ima_queue_data.c.
>> Rename the kernel configuration CONFIG_IMA_QUEUE_EARLY_BOOT_KEYS to
>> CONFIG_IMA_QUEUE_EARLY_BOOT_DATA so it can be used for enabling any
>> early boot data measurement. Since measurement of asymmetric keys is
>> the first consumer of early boot measurement, this kernel configuration
>> is enabled if IMA_MEASURE_ASYMMETRIC_KEYS and SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING are
>> both enabled.
>>
>> Update the IMA hook ima_measure_critical_data() to utilize early boot
>> measurement support.
>
> Please limit the changes in this patch to renaming the functions and/or
> files. For example, adding "measure_payload_hash" should be a separate
> patch, not hidden here.
>

Thanks for the feedback Mimi.

I'll split this into 2 patches:

PATCH 1: Rename files + rename CONFIG
PATCH 2: Update IMA hook to utilize early boot data measurement.

-lakshmi



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