From: Blaise Boscaccy <bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com>
To: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@kernel.org>, "Fan Wu" <wufan@kernel.org>,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
"Blaise Boscaccy" <bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/11] hornet: security, tooling and selftest fixes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 20:08:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528030915.2654994-1-bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
Patch 1 closes a TOCTOU race in signature verification. Map
contents were hashed at the program-load hook and re-hashed at
the program-run hook, leaving a window in which a sufficiently
privileged attacker could mutate a map between the two checks
and run a program whose maps no longer matched what was signed.
The fix records the verified hashes on the prog at load time
and, in security_bpf_prog, checks them against
prog->aux->used_maps — the same map set the verifier and
runtime resolve against — so the verified and executed sets
cannot diverge. The per-map index in the signature format is no
longer needed and is dropped; the check becomes a subset test.
Reported by Eric Biggers.
Patches 2-3 fix two counting bugs in the same area: duplicate maps
could satisfy the required hash count, and an off-by-one capped
accepted maps at MAX_USED_MAPS.
Patches 4-11 are in response to sashiko feedback found here:
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260507191416.2984054-1-bboscaccy%40linux.microsoft.com
They provide some correctness fixes in the hornet tooling along with
making the selftest behave under cross-compilation and skip cleanly
when signing keys / bpftool / vmlinux BTF are unavailable, instead of
breaking the global selftest build.
Blaise Boscaccy (11):
hornet: fix TOCTOU in signed program verification
hornet: invert map set check logic
hornet: fix off-by-one bug in max used maps check
selftests: hornet: handle cross compilation and test skipping
hornet: gen_sig: fix off-by-one check for used maps
hornet: gen_sig: fix error string allocations
hornet: gen_sig: check for bad allocations
hornet: gen_sig: fix missing command line switches
hornet: scripts: set a non-zero error code for usage
hornet: scripts: harden scripts to handle trailing whitespace
hornet: scripts: Improve argument handling and error messages
Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Hornet.rst | 39 +++---
scripts/hornet/extract-insn.sh | 24 ++--
scripts/hornet/extract-map.sh | 25 ++--
scripts/hornet/extract-skel.sh | 35 ++++--
scripts/hornet/gen_sig.c | 61 ++++++----
scripts/hornet/write-sig.sh | 10 +-
security/hornet/hornet.asn1 | 1 -
security/hornet/hornet_lsm.c | 148 ++++-------------------
tools/testing/selftests/hornet/Makefile | 114 +++++++++++++----
9 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-28 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-28 3:08 Blaise Boscaccy [this message]
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 01/11] hornet: fix TOCTOU in signed program verification Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 02/11] hornet: invert map set check logic Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 03/11] hornet: fix off-by-one bug in max used maps check Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 04/11] selftests: hornet: handle cross compilation and test skipping Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 05/11] hornet: gen_sig: fix off-by-one check for used maps Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 06/11] hornet: gen_sig: fix error string allocations Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 07/11] hornet: gen_sig: check for bad allocations Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 08/11] hornet: gen_sig: fix missing command line switches Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 09/11] hornet: scripts: set a non-zero error code for usage Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] hornet: scripts: harden scripts to handle trailing whitespace Blaise Boscaccy
2026-05-28 3:08 ` [PATCH 11/11] hornet: scripts: Improve argument handling and error messages Blaise Boscaccy
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