Re: [PATCH v5] ima_fs: Avoid creating measurement lists for unsupported hash algos

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2026-02-23 at 14:56 +0000, Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
> 
> ima_tpm_chip->allocated_banks[i].crypto_id is initialized to
> HASH_ALGO__LAST if the TPM algorithm is not supported. However there
> are places relying on the algorithm to be valid because it is accessed
> by hash_algo_name[].
> 
> On 6.12.40 I observe the following read out-of-bounds in hash_algo_name:
>   ==================================================================
>   BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440
>   Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff83e18138 by task swapper/0/1
> 
>   CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.40 #3
>   Call Trace:
>    <TASK>
>    dump_stack_lvl+0x61/0x90
>    print_report+0xc4/0x580
>    ? kasan_addr_to_slab+0x26/0x80
>    ? create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440
>    kasan_report+0xc2/0x100
>    ? create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440
>    create_securityfs_measurement_lists+0x396/0x440
>    ima_fs_init+0xa3/0x300
>    ima_init+0x7d/0xd0
>    init_ima+0x28/0x100
>    do_one_initcall+0xa6/0x3e0
>    kernel_init_freeable+0x455/0x740
>    kernel_init+0x24/0x1d0
>    ret_from_fork+0x38/0x80
>    ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
>    </TASK>
> 
>   The buggy address belongs to the variable:
>    hash_algo_name+0xb8/0x420
> 
>   Memory state around the buggy address:
>    ffffffff83e18000: 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>    ffffffff83e18080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   >ffffffff83e18100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 05 f9 f9
>                                           ^
>    ffffffff83e18180: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9
>    ffffffff83e18200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>   ==================================================================
> 
> Seems like the TPM chip supports sha3_256, which isn't yet in
> tpm_algorithms:
>   tpm tpm0: TPM with unsupported bank algorithm 0x0027
> 
> Thus solve the problem by creating a file name with "_tpm_alg_<ID>"
> postfix if the crypto algorithm isn't initialized.
> 
> This is how it looks on the test machine (patch ported to v6.12 release):
>   # ls -1 /sys/kernel/security/ima/
>   ascii_runtime_measurements
>   ascii_runtime_measurements_tpm_alg_27
>   ascii_runtime_measurements_sha1
>   ascii_runtime_measurements_sha256
>   binary_runtime_measurements
>   binary_runtime_measurements_tpm_alg_27
>   binary_runtime_measurements_sha1
>   binary_runtime_measurements_sha256
>   policy
>   runtime_measurements_count
>   violations

When reposting this patch, on top of Roberto's patch, please include the name of
the TCG document, or a link to it, defining the algorithm id number here in the
patch description.

thanks,

Mimi