[PATCH 0/4] Add CA enforcement in the machine keyring

Eric Snowberg eric.snowberg at oracle.com
Mon Mar 7 18:55:19 UTC 2022



> On Mar 6, 2022, at 4:33 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 12:36 -0500, Eric Snowberg wrote:
>> A key added to the IMA keyring must be signed by a key contained in either the
>> built-in trusted or secondary trusted keyring. IMA also requires these keys 
>> to be a CA. The only option for an end-user to add their own CA is to compile
>> it into the kernel themselves or to use the insert-sys-cert.  Many end-users 
>> do not want to compile their own kernels.  With the insert-sys-cert option, 
>> there are missing upstream changes. 
>> 
>> Currently, all Machine Owner Keys (MOK) load into the machine keyring.  Add 
>> a new Kconfig option to only allow CA keys into the machine keyring.  When 
>> compiled with the new INTEGRITY_MACHINE_KEYRING_CA_ENFORCED Kconfig, non CA 
>> keys will load into the platform keyring instead. This will allow the end-
>> user to enroll their own CA key into the machine keyring for use with IMA.
> 
> In addition to only loading the MOK CA keys onto the .machine keyring,
> the keyUsage should be required and limited to keyCertSign.

Ok, I’ll add this in the next round.



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