[PATCH v12 00/10] bpf: Add kfuncs for PKCS#7 signature verification

roberto.sassu
2022-08-18T16:05:41Z

From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>

One of the desirable features in security is the ability to restrict import
of data to a given system based on data authenticity. If data import can be
restricted, it would be possible to enforce a system-wide policy based on
the signing keys the system owner trusts.

This feature is widely used in the kernel. For example, if the restriction
is enabled, kernel modules can be plugged in only if they are signed with a
key whose public part is in the primary or secondary keyring.

For eBPF, it can be useful as well. For example, it might be useful to
authenticate data an eBPF program makes security decisions on.

After a discussion in the eBPF mailing list, it was decided that the stated
goal should be accomplished by introducing four new kfuncs:
bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_lookup_system_key(), for retrieving a keyring
with keys trusted for signature verification, respectively from its serial
and from a pre-determined ID; bpf_key_put(), to release the reference
obtained with the former two kfuncs, bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature(), for
verifying PKCS#7 signatures.

Other than the key serial, bpf_lookup_user_key() also accepts key lookup
flags, that influence the behavior of the lookup. bpf_lookup_system_key()
accepts pre-determined IDs defined in include/linux/verification.h.

bpf_key_put() accepts the new bpf_key structure, introduced to tell whether
the other structure member, a key pointer, is valid or not. The reason is
that verify_pkcs7_signature() also accepts invalid pointers, set with the
pre-determined ID, to select a system-defined keyring. key_put() must be
called only for valid key pointers.

Since the two key lookup functions allocate memory and one increments a key
reference count, they must be used in conjunction with bpf_key_put(). The
latter must be called only if the lookup functions returned a non-NULL
pointer. The verifier denies the execution of eBPF programs that don't
respect this rule.

The two key lookup functions should be used in alternative, depending on
the use case. While bpf_lookup_user_key() provides great flexibility, it
seems suboptimal in terms of security guarantees, as even if the eBPF
program is assumed to be trusted, the serial used to obtain the key pointer
might come from untrusted user space not choosing one that the system
administrator approves to enforce a mandatory policy.

bpf_lookup_system_key() instead provides much stronger guarantees,
especially if the pre-determined ID is not passed by user space but is
hardcoded in the eBPF program, and that program is signed. In this case,
bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() will always perform signature verification
with a key that the system administrator approves, i.e. the primary,
secondary or platform keyring.

Nevertheless, key permission checks need to be done accurately. Since
bpf_lookup_user_key() cannot determine how a key will be used by other
kfuncs, it has to defer the permission check to the actual kfunc using the
key. It does it by calling lookup_user_key() with KEY_DEFER_PERM_CHECK as
needed permission. Later, bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature(), if called,
completes the permission check by calling key_validate(). It does not need
to call key_task_permission() with permission KEY_NEED_SEARCH, as it is
already done elsewhere by the key subsystem. Future kfuncs using the
bpf_key structure need to implement the proper checks as well.

Finally, the last kfunc, bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature(), accepts the data and
signature to verify as eBPF dynamic pointers, to minimize the number of
kfunc parameters, and the keyring with keys for signature verification as a
bpf_key structure, returned by one of the two key lookup functions.

bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() can be called only
from sleepable programs, because of memory allocation and crypto
operations. For example, the lsm.s/bpf attach point is suitable,
fexit/array_map_update_elem is not.

The correctness of implementation of the new kfuncs and of their usage is
checked with the introduced tests.

The patch set includes a patch from another author (dependency) for sake of
completeness. It is organized as follows.

Patch 1 from KP Singh allows kfuncs to be used by LSM programs. Patch 2
allows dynamic pointers to be used as kfunc parameters. Patch 3 exports
bpf_dynptr_get_size(), to obtain the real size of data carried by a dynamic
pointer. Patch 4 makes available for new eBPF kfuncs some key-related
definitions. Patch 5 introduces the bpf_lookup_*_key() and bpf_key_put()
kfuncs. Patch 6 introduces the bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() kfunc. Patch 7
changes the testing kernel configuration to compile everything as built-in.
Finally, patches 8-10 introduce the tests.

Changelog

v11:
- Move stringify_struct() macro to include/linux/btf.h (suggested by
Daniel)
- Change kernel configuration options in
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config* from =m to =y

v10:
- Introduce key_lookup_flags_check() and system_keyring_id_check() inline
functions to check parameters (suggested by KP)
- Fix descriptions and comment of key-related kfuncs (suggested by KP)
- Register kfunc set only once (suggested by Alexei)
- Move needed kernel options to the architecture-independent configuration
for testing

v9:
- Drop patch to introduce KF_SLEEPABLE kfunc flag (already merged)
- Rename valid_ptr member of bpf_key to has_ref (suggested by Daniel)
- Check dynamic pointers in kfunc definition with bpf_dynptr_kern struct
definition instead of string, to detect structure renames (suggested by
Daniel)
- Explicitly say that we permit initialized dynamic pointers in kfunc
definition (suggested by Daniel)
- Remove noinline __weak from kfuncs definition (reported by Daniel)
- Simplify key lookup flags check in bpf_lookup_user_key() (suggested by
Daniel)
- Explain the reason for deferring key permission check (suggested by
Daniel)
- Allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in bpf_lookup_system_key(), and remove
KF_SLEEPABLE kfunc flag from kfunc declaration (suggested by Daniel)
- Define only one kfunc set and remove the loop for registration
(suggested by Alexei)

v8:
- Define the new bpf_key structure to carry the key pointer and whether
that pointer is valid or not (suggested by Daniel)
- Drop patch to mark a kfunc parameter with the __maybe_null suffix
- Improve documentation of kfuncs
- Introduce bpf_lookup_system_key() to obtain a key pointer suitable for
verify_pkcs7_signature() (suggested by Daniel)
- Use the new kfunc registration API
- Drop patch to test the __maybe_null suffix
- Add tests for bpf_lookup_system_key()

v7:
- Add support for using dynamic and NULL pointers in kfunc (suggested by
Alexei)
- Add new kfunc-related tests

v6:
- Switch back to key lookup helpers + signature verification (until v5),
and defer permission check from bpf_lookup_user_key() to
bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature()
- Add additional key lookup test to illustrate the usage of the
KEY_LOOKUP_CREATE flag and validate the flags (suggested by Daniel)
- Make description of flags of bpf_lookup_user_key() more user-friendly
(suggested by Daniel)
- Fix validation of flags parameter in bpf_lookup_user_key() (reported by
Daniel)
- Rename bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() keyring-related parameters to
user_keyring and system_keyring to make their purpose more clear
- Accept keyring-related parameters of bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() as
alternatives (suggested by KP)
- Replace unsigned long type with u64 in helper declaration (suggested by
Daniel)
- Extend the bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() test by calling the helper
without data, by ensuring that the helper enforces the keyring-related
parameters as alternatives, by ensuring that the helper rejects
inaccessible and expired keyrings, and by checking all system keyrings
- Move bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_key_put() usage tests to
ref_tracking.c (suggested by John)
- Call bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_key_put() only in sleepable programs

v5:
- Move KEY_LOOKUP_ to include/linux/key.h
for validation of bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() parameter
- Remove bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_key_put() helpers, and the
corresponding tests
- Replace struct key parameter of bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() with the
keyring serial and lookup flags
- Call lookup_user_key() and key_put() in bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature()
code, to ensure that the retrieved key is used according to the
permission requested at lookup time
- Clarified keyring precedence in the description of
bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() (suggested by John)
- Remove newline in the second argument of ASSERT_
- Fix helper prototype regular expression in bpf_doc.py

v4:
- Remove bpf_request_key_by_id(), don't return an invalid pointer that
other helpers can use
- Pass the keyring ID (without ULONG_MAX, suggested by Alexei) to
bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature()
- Introduce bpf_lookup_user_key() and bpf_key_put() helpers (suggested by
Alexei)
- Add lookup_key_norelease test, to ensure that the verifier blocks eBPF
programs which don't decrement the key reference count
- Parse raw PKCS#7 signature instead of module-style signature in the
verify_pkcs7_signature test (suggested by Alexei)
- Parse kernel module in user space and pass raw PKCS#7 signature to the
eBPF program for signature verification

v3:
- Rename bpf_verify_signature() back to bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() to
avoid managing different parameters for each signature verification
function in one helper (suggested by Daniel)
- Use dynamic pointers and export bpf_dynptr_get_size() (suggested by
Alexei)
- Introduce bpf_request_key_by_id() to give more flexibility to the caller
of bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() to retrieve the appropriate keyring
(suggested by Alexei)
- Fix test by reordering the gcc command line, always compile sign-file
- Improve helper support check mechanism in the test

v2:
- Rename bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() to a more generic
bpf_verify_signature() and pass the signature type (suggested by KP)
- Move the helper and prototype declaration under #ifdef so that user
space can probe for support for the helper (suggested by Daniel)
- Describe better the keyring types (suggested by Daniel)
- Include linux/bpf.h instead of vmlinux.h to avoid implicit or
redeclaration
- Make the test selfcontained (suggested by Alexei)

v1:
- Don't define new map flag but introduce simple wrapper of
verify_pkcs7_signature() (suggested by Alexei and KP)

KP Singh (1):
bpf: Allow kfuncs to be used in LSM programs

Roberto Sassu (9):
btf: Handle dynamic pointer parameter in kfuncs
bpf: Export bpf_dynptr_get_size()
KEYS: Move KEY_LOOKUP_ to include/linux/key.h
bpf: Add bpf_lookup_*_key() and bpf_key_put() kfuncs
bpf: Add bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() kfunc
selftests/bpf: Compile kernel with everything as built-in
selftests/bpf: Add verifier tests for bpf_lookup_*_key() and
bpf_key_put()
selftests/bpf: Add additional tests for bpf_lookup_*_key()
selftests/bpf: Add test for bpf_verify_pkcs7_signature() kfunc

include/linux/bpf.h | 7 +
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 3 +
include/linux/btf.h | 9 +
include/linux/key.h | 11 +
include/linux/verification.h | 8 +
kernel/bpf/btf.c | 19 +
kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 2 +-
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 180 ++++++++
security/keys/internal.h | 2 -
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 14 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config | 32 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.x86_64 | 7 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/lookup_key.c | 112 +++++
.../bpf/prog_tests/verify_pkcs7_sig.c | 399 ++++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/test_lookup_key.c | 46 ++
.../bpf/progs/test_verify_pkcs7_sig.c | 100 +++++
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 3 +-
.../selftests/bpf/verifier/ref_tracking.c | 139 ++++++
.../testing/selftests/bpf/verify_sig_setup.sh | 104 +++++
20 files changed, 1173 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/lookup_key.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verify_pkcs7_sig.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_lookup_key.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_verify_pkcs7_sig.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verify_sig_setup.sh

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