Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] ipe: add errno field to IPE policy load auditing

Paul Moore
2025-03-17T21:04:02Z

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM Fan Wu <wufan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM Jasjiv Singh
> <jasjivsingh@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Users of IPE require a way to identify when and why an operation fails,
> > allowing them to both respond to violations of policy and be notified
> > of potentially malicious actions on their systems with respect to IPE.
> >
> > This patch introduces a new error field to the AUDIT_IPE_POLICY_LOAD event
> > to log policy loading failures. Currently, IPE only logs successful policy
> > loads, but not failures. Tracking failures is crucial to detect malicious
> > attempts and ensure a complete audit trail for security events.
> >
> > The new error field will capture the following error codes:
> >
> > * -ENOKEY: Key used to sign the IPE policy not found in the keyring
> > * -ESTALE: Attempting to update an IPE policy with an older version
> > * -EKEYREJECTED: IPE signature verification failed
> > * -ENOENT: Policy was deleted while updating
> > * -EEXIST: Same name policy already deployed
> > * -ERANGE: Policy version number overflow
> > * -EINVAL: Policy version parsing error
> > * -EPERM: Insufficient permission
> > * -ENOMEM: Out of memory (OOM)
> > * -EBADMSG: Policy is invalid
> >
> > Here are some examples of the updated audit record types:
> >
> > AUDIT_IPE_POLICY_LOAD(1422):
> > audit: AUDIT1422 policy_name="Test_Policy" policy_version=0.0.1
> > policy_digest=sha256:84EFBA8FA71E62AE0A537FAB962F8A2BD1053964C4299DCA
> > 92BFFF4DB82E86D3 auid=1000 ses=3 lsm=ipe res=1 errno=0
> >
> > The above record shows a new policy has been successfully loaded into
> > the kernel with the policy name, version, and hash with the errno=0.
> >
> > AUDIT_IPE_POLICY_LOAD(1422) with error:
> >
> > audit: AUDIT1422 policy_name=? policy_version=? policy_digest=?
> > auid=1000 ses=3 lsm=ipe res=0 errno=-74
> >
> > The above record shows a policy load failure due to an invalid policy
> > (-EBADMSG).
> >
> > By adding this error field, we ensure that all policy load attempts,
> > whether successful or failed, are logged, providing a comprehensive
> > audit trail for IPE policy management.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jasjiv Singh <jasjivsingh@linux.microsoft.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/ipe.rst | 69 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> > security/ipe/audit.c | 19 ++++++--
> > security/ipe/fs.c | 25 ++++++----
> > security/ipe/policy.c | 17 ++++---
> > security/ipe/policy_fs.c | 28 ++++++++---
> > 5 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> >
>
> ...
>
> > diff --git a/security/ipe/policy.c b/security/ipe/policy.c
> > index b628f696e32b..1c58c29886e8 100644
> > --- a/security/ipe/policy.c
> > +++ b/security/ipe/policy.c
> > @@ -84,8 +84,11 @@ static int set_pkcs7_data(void *ctx, const void *data, size_t len,
> > * ipe_new_policy.
> > *
> > * Context: Requires root->i_rwsem to be held.
> > - * Return: %0 on success. If an error occurs, the function will return
> > - * the -errno.
> > + * Return:
> > + * * %0 - Success
> > + * * %-ENOENT - Policy was deleted while updating
> > + * * %-EINVAL - Policy name mismatch
> > + * * %-ESTALE - Policy version too old
> > */
> > int ipe_update_policy(struct inode *root, const char *text, size_t textlen,
> > const char *pkcs7, size_t pkcs7len)
> > @@ -146,10 +149,12 @@ int ipe_update_policy(struct inode *root, const char *text, size_t textlen,
> > *
> > * Return:
> > * * a pointer to the ipe_policy structure - Success
> > - * * %-EBADMSG - Policy is invalid
> > - * * %-ENOMEM - Out of memory (OOM)
> > - * * %-ERANGE - Policy version number overflow
> > - * * %-EINVAL - Policy version parsing error
> > + * * %-EBADMSG - Policy is invalid
> > + * * %-ENOMEM - Out of memory (OOM)
> > + * * %-ERANGE - Policy version number overflow
> > + * * %-EINVAL - Policy version parsing error
> > + * * %-ENOKEY - Policy signing key not found
> > + * * %-EKEYREJECTED - Policy signature verification failed
> > */
>
> The indentation here is not aligned.
>
> I don't see any other issue, if there is no objection from the audit
> folks, I will pull this into ipe's tree.

No objections from me.

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