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dm-verity provides a strong guarantee of a block device's integrity. As a generic way to check the integrity of a block device, it provides those integrity guarantees to its higher layers, including the filesystem level. However, critical security metadata like the dm-verity roothash and its signing information are not easily accessible to the LSMs. To address this limitation, this patch introduces a mechanism to store and manage these essential security details within a newly added LSM blob in the block_device structure. This addition allows LSMs to make access control decisions on the integrity data stored within the block_device, enabling more flexible security policies. For instance, LSMs can now revoke access to dm-verity devices based on their roothashes, ensuring that only authorized and verified content is accessible. Additionally, LSMs can enforce policies to only allow files from dm-verity devices that have a valid digital signature to execute, effectively blocking any unsigned files from execution, thus enhancing security against unauthorized modifications. The patch includes new hook calls, `security_bdev_setintegrity()`, in dm-verity to expose the dm-verity roothash and the roothash signature to LSMs via preresume() callback. By using the preresume() callback, it ensures that the security metadata is consistently in sync with the metadata of the dm-verity target in the current active mapping table. The hook calls are depended on CONFIG_SECURITY. Signed-off-by: Deven Bowers <deven.desai@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> [PM: moved sig_size field as discussed] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.