Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Encrypted Hibernation

["Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@amd.com>]

On 8/23/2022 17:25, Evan Green wrote:
> We are exploring enabling hibernation in some new scenarios. However,
> our security team has a few requirements, listed below:
> 1. The hibernate image must be encrypted with protection derived from
>     both the platform (eg TPM) and user authentication data (eg
>     password).
> 2. Hibernation must not be a vector by which a malicious userspace can
>     escalate to the kernel.
> 
> Requirement #1 can be achieved solely with uswsusp, however requirement
> 2 necessitates mechanisms in the kernel to guarantee integrity of the
> hibernate image. The kernel needs a way to authenticate that it generated
> the hibernate image being loaded, and that the image has not been tampered
> with. Adding support for in-kernel AEAD encryption with a TPM-sealed key
> allows us to achieve both requirements with a single computation pass.
> 
> Matthew Garrett published a series [1] that aligns closely with this
> goal. His series utilized the fact that PCR23 is a resettable PCR that
> can be blocked from access by usermode. The TPM can create a sealed key
> tied to PCR23 in two ways. First, the TPM can attest to the value of
> PCR23 when the key was created, which the kernel can use on resume to
> verify that the kernel must have created the key (since it is the only
> one capable of modifying PCR23). It can also create a policy that enforces
> PCR23 be set to a specific value as a condition of unsealing the key,
> preventing usermode from unsealing the key by talking directly to the
> TPM.
> 
> This series adopts that primitive as a foundation, tweaking and building
> on it a bit. Where Matthew's series used the TPM-backed key to encrypt a
> hash of the image, this series uses the key directly as a gcm(aes)
> encryption key, which the kernel uses to encrypt and decrypt the
> hibernate image in chunks of 16 pages. This provides both encryption and
> integrity, which turns out to be a noticeable performance improvement over
> separate passes for encryption and hashing.
> 
> The series also introduces the concept of mixing user key material into
> the encryption key. This allows usermode to introduce key material
> based on unspecified external authentication data (in our case derived
> from something like the user password or PIN), without requiring
> usermode to do a separate encryption pass.
> 
> Matthew also documented issues his series had [2] related to generating
> fake images by booting alternate kernels without the PCR23 limiting.
> With access to PCR23 on the same machine, usermode can create fake
> hibernate images that are indistinguishable to the new kernel from
> genuine ones. His post outlines a solution that involves adding more
> PCRs into the creation data and policy, with some gyrations to make this
> work well on a standard PC.
> 
> Our approach would be similar: on our machines PCR 0 indicates whether
> the system is booted in secure/verified mode or developer mode. By
> adding PCR0 to the policy, we can reject hibernate images made in
> developer mode while in verified mode (or vice versa).
> 
> Additionally, mixing in the user authentication data limits both
> data exfiltration attacks (eg a stolen laptop) and forged hibernation
> image attacks to attackers that already know the authentication data (eg
> user's password). This, combined with our relatively sealed userspace
> (dm-verity on the rootfs), and some judicious clearing of the hibernate
> image (such as across an OS update) further reduce the risk of an online
> attack. The remaining attack space of a forgery from someone with
> physical access to the device and knowledge of the authentication data
> is out of scope for us, given that flipping to developer mode or
> reflashing RO firmware trivially achieves the same thing.
> 
> A couple of patches still need to be written on top of this series. The
> generalized functionality to OR in additional PCRs via Kconfig (like PCR
> 0 or 5) still needs to be added. We'll also need a patch that disallows
> unencrypted forms of resume from hibernation, to fully close the door
> to malicious userspace. However, I wanted to get this series out first
> and get reactions from upstream before continuing to add to it.

Something else to think about in this series is what happens with 
`hibernation_available` in kernel/power/hibernate.c.  Currently if the 
system is locked down hibernate is disabled, but I would think that
with a setup like that described here that should no longer be necessary.

> 
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20210220013255.1083202-1-matthewgarrett@google.com/
> [2] https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58077.html
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - Fixed sparse warnings
>   - Adjust hash len by 2 due to new ASN.1 storage, and add underflow
>     check.
>   - Rework load/create_kernel_key() to eliminate a label (Andrey)
>   - Call put_device() needed from calling tpm_default_chip().
>   - Add missing static on snapshot_encrypted_byte_count()
>   - Fold in only the used kernel key bytes to the user key.
>   - Make the user key length 32 (Eric)
>   - Use CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 for less boilerplate (Eric)
>   - Fixed some sparse warnings
>   - Use CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 to get rid of sha256_data() (Eric)
>   - Adjusted offsets due to new ASN.1 format, and added a creation data
>     length check.
>   - Fix sparse warnings
>   - Fix session type comment (Andrey)
>   - Eliminate extra label in get/create_kernel_key() (Andrey)
>   - Call tpm_try_get_ops() before calling tpm2_flush_context().
> 
> Evan Green (7):
>    security: keys: trusted: Include TPM2 creation data
>    security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
>    PM: hibernate: Add kernel-based encryption
>    PM: hibernate: Use TPM-backed keys to encrypt image
>    PM: hibernate: Mix user key in encrypted hibernate
>    PM: hibernate: Verify the digest encryption key
>    PM: hibernate: seal the encryption key with a PCR policy
> 
> Matthew Garrett (3):
>    tpm: Add support for in-kernel resetting of PCRs
>    tpm: Allow PCR 23 to be restricted to kernel-only use
>    security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
> 
>   Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.rst       |    8 +
>   .../security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst       |    4 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig                      |   10 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c             |    8 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c              |   28 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h                        |   23 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c                   |   69 ++
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c                   |   58 +
>   drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c                 |    2 +-
>   include/keys/trusted-type.h                   |    9 +
>   include/linux/tpm.h                           |   12 +
>   include/uapi/linux/suspend_ioctls.h           |   28 +-
>   kernel/power/Kconfig                          |   16 +
>   kernel/power/Makefile                         |    1 +
>   kernel/power/power.h                          |    1 +
>   kernel/power/snapenc.c                        | 1037 +++++++++++++++++
>   kernel/power/snapshot.c                       |    5 +
>   kernel/power/user.c                           |   44 +-
>   kernel/power/user.h                           |  114 ++
>   security/keys/trusted-keys/tpm2key.asn1       |    5 +-
>   security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm1.c     |    9 +
>   security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c     |  304 ++++-
>   22 files changed, 1754 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 kernel/power/snapenc.c
>   create mode 100644 kernel/power/user.h
>