[PULL REQUEST] Lock down patches

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Thu Feb 28 23:24:39 UTC 2019


On 2/28/19 1:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> David is low on cycles at the moment, so I'm taking over for this time
> round. This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
> intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel. When
> enabled and active (by enabling the config option and passing the
> "lockdown" option on the kernel command line), various pieces of
> kernel functionality are restricted. Applications that rely on
> low-level access to either hardware or the kernel may cease working as
> a result - therefore this should not be enabled without appropriate
> evaluation beforehand.

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst says (IMO) that these
patches should also have Signed-of-by: <you>.

"The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path."

Also, the sysrq key usage should be documented in
Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst.

> The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
> of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
> unified upstream implementation to reduce the delta. This PR probably
> doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
> to not requiring external patches.
> 
> This PR is mostly the same as the previous attempt, but with the
> following changes:
> 
> 1) The integration between EFI secure boot and the lockdown state has
> been removed
> 2) A new CONFIG_KERNEL_LOCK_DOWN_FORCE kconfig option has been added,
> which will always enable lockdown regardless of the kernel command
> line
> 3) The integration with IMA has been dropped for now. Requiring the
> use of the IMA secure boot policy when lockdown is enabled isn't
> practical for most distributions at the moment, as there's still not a
> great deal of infrastructure for shipping packages with appropriate
> IMA signatures, and it makes it complicated for end users to manage
> custom IMA policies.
> 
> The following changes since commit a3b22b9f11d9fbc48b0291ea92259a5a810e9438:
> 
>   Linux 5.0-rc7 (2019-02-17 18:46:40 -0800)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   https://github.com/mjg59/linux lock_down
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 43e004ecae91bf9159b8e91cd1d613e58b8f63f8:
> 
>   lockdown: Print current->comm in restriction messages (2019-02-28
> 11:19:23 -0800)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Young (1):
>       Copy secure_boot flag in boot params across kexec reboot
> 
> David Howells (12):
>       Add the ability to lock down access to the running kernel image
>       Enforce module signatures if the kernel is locked down
>       Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
>       Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
>       Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
>       x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
>       Lock down /proc/kcore
>       Lock down kprobes
>       bpf: Restrict kernel image access functions when the kernel is locked down
>       Lock down perf
>       debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
>       lockdown: Print current->comm in restriction messages
> 
> Jiri Bohac (2):
>       kexec_file: split KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG into KEXEC_SIG and KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
>       kexec_file: Restrict at runtime if the kernel is locked down
> 
> Josh Boyer (2):
>       hibernate: Disable when the kernel is locked down
>       acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
> 
> Kyle McMartin (1):
>       Add a SysRq option to lift kernel lockdown
> 
> Linn Crosetto (2):
>       acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
>       acpi: Disable APEI error injection if the kernel is locked down
> 
> Matthew Garrett (7):
>       Restrict /dev/{mem,kmem,port} when the kernel is locked down
>       kexec_load: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down
>       uswsusp: Disable when the kernel is locked down
>       PCI: Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down
>       x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
>       x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
>       ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
> 
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                       |  20 ++++++++++++-----
>  arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h           |   2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c               |   6 ++++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c      |   1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/msr.c                  |  10 +++++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/testmmiotrace.c            |   3 +++
>  crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c |   4 +++-
>  drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c               |   3 +++
>  drivers/acpi/custom_method.c           |   3 +++
>  drivers/acpi/osl.c                     |   2 +-
>  drivers/acpi/tables.c                  |   5 +++++
>  drivers/char/mem.c                     |   2 ++
>  drivers/input/misc/uinput.c            |   1 +
>  drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c                |   9 ++++++++
>  drivers/pci/proc.c                     |   9 +++++++-
>  drivers/pci/syscall.c                  |   3 ++-
>  drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c                |   3 +++
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c       |   6 ++++++
>  drivers/tty/sysrq.c                    |  19 +++++++++++------
>  fs/debugfs/file.c                      |  28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/debugfs/inode.c                     |  30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/proc/kcore.c                        |   2 ++
>  include/linux/ima.h                    |   6 ++++++
>  include/linux/input.h                  |   5 +++++
>  include/linux/kernel.h                 |  17 +++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/kexec.h                  |   4 ++--
>  include/linux/security.h               |   9 +++++++-
>  include/linux/sysrq.h                  |   8 ++++++-
>  kernel/bpf/syscall.c                   |   3 +++
>  kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c            |   2 +-
>  kernel/events/core.c                   |   5 +++++
>  kernel/kexec.c                         |   7 ++++++
>  kernel/kexec_file.c                    |  56
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  kernel/kprobes.c                       |   3 +++
>  kernel/module.c                        |  56
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  kernel/params.c                        |  26 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>  kernel/power/hibernate.c               |   2 +-
>  kernel/power/user.c                    |   3 +++
>  security/Kconfig                       |  24 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  security/Makefile                      |   3 +++
>  security/lock_down.c                   | 106
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  41 files changed, 466 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 security/lock_down.c
> 


-- 
~Randy



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