[PATCH] ima: select the SHA384 PCR bank for the boot aggregate
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Aug 26 21:20:56 UTC 2026
On Wed, 2026-08-26 at 19:11 +0000, Singh, Jashandeep wrote:
> From: Jashandeep Singh <jdsw at juniper.net>
>
> ima_calc_boot_aggregate() selects a TPM PCR bank matching the
> configured IMA hash algorithm, otherwise falling back to the SHA256
> bank or the SHA1 bank.
>
> A TPM 2.0 can be provisioned with only the SHA384 bank enabled, with no
> SHA256 or SHA1 bank. None of the above then matched, selection failed
> with
>
> ima: No suitable TPM algorithm for boot aggregate
>
> and the boot aggregate digest was left as zeros, as for TPM bypass,
> making remote attestation impossible.
>
> Accept the SHA384 bank as a fallback. The configured IMA hash algorithm
> is still matched first.
FYI, all enabled TPM banks are extended. Refer to the functions
ima_pcr_extend() and tpm_pcr_extend().
The IMA measurement list contains file data hashes based on the IMA default hash
algorithm. Similarly, the boot_aggregate hash is calculated using the IMA
default hash algorithm.
If you're seeing "ima: No suitable TPM algorithm for boot aggregate", it
probably means no TPM banks are configured.
Mimi
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