Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion

Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-01-20T03:58:52Z

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:19:03PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>
> KEY_FLAG_KEEP is not meant to be passed to keyring_alloc() or key_alloc(),
> as these only take KEY_ALLOC_* flags. KEY_FLAG_KEEP has the same value as
> KEY_ALLOC_BYPASS_RESTRICTION, but fortunately only key_create_or_update()
> uses it. LSMs using the key_alloc hook don't check that flag.
>
> KEY_FLAG_KEEP is then ignored but fortunately (again) the root user cannot
> write to the blacklist keyring, so it is not possible to remove a key/hash
> from it.
>
> Fix this by adding a KEY_ALLOC_SET_KEEP flag that tells key_alloc() to set
> KEY_FLAG_KEEP on the new key. blacklist_init() can then, correctly, pass
> this to keyring_alloc().

OK, so thing work by luck now, but given the new patches which allow
to append new keys they would break, right?

> We can also use this in ima_mok_init() rather than setting the flag
> manually.

What does ima_mok_init() do?
> Note that this doesn't fix an observable bug with the current
> implementation but it is required to allow addition of new hashes to the
> blacklist in the future without making it possible for them to be removed.
>
> Fixes: 734114f8782f ("KEYS: Add a system blacklist keyring")
> cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Nit: Cc

> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Reported-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> [mic@linux.microsoft.com: fix ima_mok_init()]
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>
> Changes since v2:
> * Cherry-pick rewritten v1 patch from
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2659836.1607940186@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
> to rebase on v5.11-rc3 and fix ima_mok_init().
> ---
> certs/blacklist.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/key.h | 1 +
> security/integrity/ima/ima_mok.c | 4 +---
> security/keys/key.c | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/certs/blacklist.c b/certs/blacklist.c
> index a888b934a1cd..029471947838 100644
> --- a/certs/blacklist.c
> +++ b/certs/blacklist.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static int __init blacklist_init(void)
> KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ |
> KEY_USR_SEARCH,
> KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA |
> - KEY_FLAG_KEEP,
> + KEY_ALLOC_SET_KEEP,
> NULL, NULL);
> if (IS_ERR(blacklist_keyring))
> panic("Can't allocate system blacklist keyring\n");
> diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
> index 0f2e24f13c2b..eed3ce139a32 100644
> --- a/include/linux/key.h
> +++ b/include/linux/key.h
> @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ extern struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type,
> #define KEY_ALLOC_BUILT_IN 0x0004 /* Key is built into kernel */
> #define KEY_ALLOC_BYPASS_RESTRICTION 0x0008 /* Override the check on restricted keyrings */
> #define KEY_ALLOC_UID_KEYRING 0x0010 /* allocating a user or user session keyring */
> +#define KEY_ALLOC_SET_KEEP 0x0020 /* Set the KEEP flag on the key/keyring */
>
> extern void key_revoke(struct key *key);
> extern void key_invalidate(struct key *key);
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_mok.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_mok.c
> index 36cadadbfba4..5594dd38ab04 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_mok.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_mok.c
> @@ -38,13 +38,11 @@ __init int ima_mok_init(void)
> (KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
> KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ |
> KEY_USR_WRITE | KEY_USR_SEARCH,
> - KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA,
> + KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA | KEY_ALLOC_SET_KEEP,
> restriction, NULL);
>
> if (IS_ERR(ima_blacklist_keyring))
> panic("Can't allocate IMA blacklist keyring.");
> -
> - set_bit(KEY_FLAG_KEEP, &ima_blacklist_keyring->flags);
> return 0;
> }
> device_initcall(ima_mok_init);
> diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
> index ebe752b137aa..c45afdd1dfbb 100644
> --- a/security/keys/key.c
> +++ b/security/keys/key.c
> @@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type, const char *desc,
> key->flags |= 1 << KEY_FLAG_BUILTIN;
> if (flags & KEY_ALLOC_UID_KEYRING)
> key->flags |= 1 << KEY_FLAG_UID_KEYRING;
> + if (flags & KEY_ALLOC_SET_KEEP)
> + key->flags |= 1 << KEY_FLAG_KEEP;
>
> #ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING
> key->magic = KEY_DEBUG_MAGIC;
> --
> 2.30.0
>

Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

/Jarkko