[PATCH] fsverity: Tell LSMs about signature only after verity is enabled

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Sun Oct 25 20:45:34 UTC 2026


FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY calls security_inode_setintegrity() before verity
has finished being enabled.  That's broken because enabling verity can
still fail at that point, e.g. due to insufficient xattr space.

Afterwards, arbitrary contents can be written to the file, which doesn't
actually have verity enabled.  The in-core inode stays the same, so the
LSM considers it to have verity enabled with a valid signature.  (Or
rather, in the case of IPE, which is the only LSM that implements
security_inode_setintegrity(), it also checks IS_VERITY(), which can be
bypassed by enabling verity with no signature after the file writes.)

Fix this by moving the call to security_inode_setintegrity() out of
fsverity_verify_signature() and into a new function that is called from
the appropriate places.

Fixes: 7c373e4f1445 ("fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in signatures to LSMs")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org>
---
 fs/verity/enable.c           |  8 ++++++
 fs/verity/fsverity_private.h |  8 ++++++
 fs/verity/open.c             |  9 ++++++
 fs/verity/signature.c        | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/verity/enable.c b/fs/verity/enable.c
index ad4ff71d7dd95..2949fb8afb2fa 100644
--- a/fs/verity/enable.c
+++ b/fs/verity/enable.c
@@ -302,6 +302,14 @@ static int enable_verity(struct file *filp,
 	} else if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_VERITY(inode))) {
 		fsverity_remove_info(vi);
 		err = -EINVAL;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * Now that verity is enabled, report the signature (if any) to
+		 * LSMs.  We tolerate that a process racing with this ioctl can
+		 * briefly see verity enabled with no signature reported yet.
+		 */
+		fsverity_report_valid_sig(inode, desc->signature,
+					  le32_to_cpu(desc->sig_size));
 	}
 out:
 	kfree(params.hashstate);
diff --git a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
index 6f85f63861aaa..2c41428d484b3 100644
--- a/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
+++ b/fs/verity/fsverity_private.h
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ void __init fsverity_init_info_cache(void);
 extern int fsverity_require_signatures;
 int fsverity_verify_signature(const struct fsverity_info *vi,
 			      const u8 *signature, size_t sig_size);
+void fsverity_report_valid_sig(const struct inode *inode, const u8 *signature,
+			       size_t sig_size);
 
 void __init fsverity_init_signature(void);
 #else /* !CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES */
@@ -170,6 +172,12 @@ fsverity_verify_signature(const struct fsverity_info *vi,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline void fsverity_report_valid_sig(const struct inode *inode,
+					     const u8 *signature,
+					     size_t sig_size)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void fsverity_init_signature(void)
 {
 }
diff --git a/fs/verity/open.c b/fs/verity/open.c
index 6646290430380..13fa69d7e4be4 100644
--- a/fs/verity/open.c
+++ b/fs/verity/open.c
@@ -387,6 +387,15 @@ int fsverity_ensure_verity_info(struct inode *inode)
 		goto out_free_desc;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Now that the signature (if any) has been verified, report it to LSMs.
+	 * Do this before inserting the fsverity_info into the hashtable, so
+	 * that anyone who concurrently retrieves the fsverity_info for the same
+	 * inode is guaranteed to see the LSM's signature status populated.
+	 */
+	fsverity_report_valid_sig(inode, desc->signature,
+				  le32_to_cpu(desc->sig_size));
+
 	/*
 	 * Multiple tasks may race to set the inode's verity info, in which case
 	 * we might find an existing fsverity_info in the hash table.
diff --git a/fs/verity/signature.c b/fs/verity/signature.c
index 0302a4e506ec4..212e873c84998 100644
--- a/fs/verity/signature.c
+++ b/fs/verity/signature.c
@@ -42,13 +42,16 @@ static struct key *fsverity_keyring;
  * @sig_size: size of signature in bytes, or 0 if no signature
  *
  * If the file includes a signature of its fs-verity file digest, verify it
- * against the certificates in the fs-verity keyring. Note that signatures
- * are verified regardless of the state of the 'fsverity_require_signatures'
- * variable and the LSM subsystem relies on this behavior to help enforce
- * file integrity policies. Please discuss changes with the LSM list
- * (thank you!).
+ * against the certificates in the fs-verity keyring.
  *
- * Return: 0 on success (signature valid or not required); -errno on failure
+ * Note that signatures are verified regardless of the state of the
+ * 'fsverity_require_signatures' variable, and the LSM subsystem relies on this
+ * behavior to help enforce file integrity policies.  (See
+ * fsverity_report_valid_sig(), which assumes that the signature, if present,
+ * was verified here.)  Please discuss changes with the LSM list (thank you!).
+ *
+ * Return: 0 if the signature is present and valid, or absent and not required;
+ *	   -errno on failure
  */
 int fsverity_verify_signature(const struct fsverity_info *vi,
 			      const u8 *signature, size_t sig_size)
@@ -111,18 +114,40 @@ int fsverity_verify_signature(const struct fsverity_info *vi,
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	err = security_inode_setintegrity(inode,
-					  LSM_INT_FSVERITY_BUILTINSIG_VALID,
-					  signature,
-					  sig_size);
+	return 0;
+}
 
-	if (err) {
+/*
+ * If the signature exists, this tells the LSM that it was verified.
+ *
+ * fsverity_verify_signature() must have already been called with the same
+ * signature, *and* the inode must have verity enabled with the signature
+ * matching it.  If called from FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY, the latter means that we
+ * must be past the point of no return, i.e. verity won't fail to be enabled at
+ * a later point.  This is critical, since LSMs must be told about the signature
+ * only when the verity status is permanent in the in-core inode.
+ */
+void fsverity_report_valid_sig(const struct inode *inode, const u8 *signature,
+			       size_t sig_size)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_VERITY(inode)))
+		return;
+
+	if (sig_size == 0)
+		return;
+
+	err = security_inode_setintegrity(
+		inode, LSM_INT_FSVERITY_BUILTINSIG_VALID, signature, sig_size);
+	if (err)
 		fsverity_err(inode, "Error %d exposing file signature to LSMs",
 			     err);
-		return err;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
+	/*
+	 * Besides the logging above, ignore errors here.  The LSM hook just
+	 * records the signature and doesn't perform access control.  And in the
+	 * case of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY verity was already enabled.
+	 */
 }
 
 void __init fsverity_init_signature(void)

base-commit: 21a7f44fd0765fcc5194130b28767786eba1d1e7
-- 
2.56.0




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