Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Fri May 24 19:15:30 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 12:00 -0700, prakhar srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:09 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >> As mentioned, the first patch description should include a shell
> > > >> command for verifying the digest in the kexec boot command line
> > > >> measurement list record against /proc/cmdline.  This patch description
> > > >> should include a shell command showing how to verify the digest based
> > > >> on the new field.  Should the new field in the ascii measurement list
> > > >> be displayed as a string, not hex?
> > > >
> > > > We should define a new type. If the type is DATA_FMT_STRING, spaces are
> > > > replaced with '_'.
> > >
> > > Or better. Leave it as hex, otherwise there would be a parsing problem
> > > if there are spaces in the data for a field.
> >
> > After making a few changes, the measurement list contains the
> > following kexec-cmdline data:
> >
> > 10 edc32d1e3a5ba7272280a395b6fb56a5ef7c78c3 ima-buf
> > sha256:4f43b7db850e
> > 88c49dfeffd4b1eb4f021d78033dfb05b07e45eec8d0b45275
> > kexec-cmdline
> > 726f6f
> > 743d2f6465762f7364613420726f2072642e6c756b732e757569643d6c756b73
> > 2d6637
> > 3633643737632d653236622d343431642d613734652d62363633636334643832
> > 656120
> > 696d615f706f6c6963793d7463627c61707072616973655f746362
> >
> > There's probably a better shell command, but the following works to
> > verify the digest locally against the /proc/cmdline:
> >
> > $ echo -n -e `cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/^.*root=/root=/'` | sha256sum
> > 4f43b7db850e88c49dfeffd4b1eb4f021d78033dfb05b07e45eec8d0b4527f65  -
> >
> > If we leave the "buf" field as ascii-hex, what would the shell command
> > look like when verifying the digest based on the "buf" field?
> >
> > Mimi
> >
> To quickly test the sha256 i used the my /proc/cmdline
> ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 ima_policy=tcb ima_appraise=fix
> ima_template_fmt=n-ng|d-ng|sig|buf ima_hash=sha256
> 
> export $VAL=
> 726f2071756965742073706c6173682076742e68616e646f66663d3120
> 696d615f706f6c6963793d74636220696d615f61707072616973653d666
> 97820696d615f74656d706c6174655f666d743d6e2d6e677c642d6e677c
> 7369677c62756620696d615f686173683d736861323536
> 
> echo -n -e $VAL | xxd -r -p | sha256sum
> 0d0b891bb730120d9593799cba1a7b3febf68f2bb81fb1304b0c963f95f6bc58  -
> 
> I will run it through the code as well, but the shell command should work.

Yes, that works.

sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
| grep  kexec-cmdline | cut -d' ' -f 6 | xxd -r -p | sha256sum

Mimi



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