From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>,
Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>,
Jonathan McDowell <noodles@fb.com>,
bauermann@kolabnow.com
Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>,
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>,
code@tyhicks.com
Subject: Re: need help: patches to capture events between kexec load and execute
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:59:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91dd069c090522be1e3369e83520d3813336b5bf.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3748147f-85f5-4aeb-0083-cbeef375e12a@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 11:37 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>
> On 5/31/23 18:43, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 15:02 -0700, Tushar Sugandhi wrote:
> >> Hi Mimi,
> >>
> >> On 5/31/23 04:39, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >>> Hi Tushar,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2023-05-25 at 10:21 -0700, Tushar Sugandhi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The issue of IMA measurements getting lost between kexec 'load' and 'execute' still exists.
> >>>> I verified it on the mainline kernel 6.4.rc3. See *Appendix A* for details.
>
> I think there's a 2nd problem. Once the IMA measurement list is frozen (at kexec 'exec' stage)
> IMA must stop extending PCRs. It can log (into the void) if it wanted to but the PCR extensions
> have to stop otherwise the TPM's PCR state won't match the log in the kexec'ed-to kernel. I have
> seen that on PPC64 some processes are being kicked off by kexec 'exec' that end up causing TPM
> driver error message due to what seems to be a shutdown of the driver subsystem at this point.
> I am not sure what an elegant method would be to stop PCR extensions. Maybe a flag on the level
> of IMA would do? Or notifying the TPM driver to reject PCR extensions or just any command?
Thank you for raising this concern.
Agreed "kexec exec" might trigger additional measurements. As long as
these are known, consistent measurements, they could be pre-measured
before calling "kexec exec".
--
thanks,
Mimi
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-04 6:16 need help: patches to capture events between kexec load and execute Tushar Sugandhi
2022-06-06 8:19 ` Jonathan McDowell
2022-06-06 17:22 ` Tushar Sugandhi
[not found] ` <87775c1e-d1d3-519c-599b-30cdb1691cb2@linux.microsoft.com>
2023-05-31 11:39 ` Mimi Zohar
[not found] ` <41270374-dc5e-3aa2-d2ed-9b8fc73ad65f@linux.microsoft.com>
2023-05-31 22:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2023-06-06 15:37 ` Stefan Berger
2023-06-06 15:59 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2023-06-07 18:42 ` Stefan Berger
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