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authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>2021-05-14 17:27:44 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-07-14 16:53:08 +0200
commit74e9d920f25ce511f5458ae9d8c5ccd506649367 (patch)
treeb2029ff9ebd4533b462f674e1e125d25adf5af0d /security
parentd7dfaf13d24efb39914a53eaed3ebba4599e6141 (diff)
evm: Refuse EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES only if an HMAC key is loaded
commit 9acc89d31f0c94c8e573ed61f3e4340bbd526d0c upstream. EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES is an EVM initialization flag that can be set to temporarily disable metadata verification until all xattrs/attrs necessary to verify an EVM portable signature are copied to the file. This flag is cleared when EVM is initialized with an HMAC key, to avoid that the HMAC is calculated on unverified xattrs/attrs. Currently EVM unnecessarily denies setting this flag if EVM is initialized with a public key, which is not a concern as it cannot be used to trust xattrs/attrs updates. This patch removes this limitation. Fixes: ae1ba1676b88e ("EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata") Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16.x Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
index 0f37ef27268d..f93b688037b1 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
@@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ static ssize_t evm_write_key(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (!i || (i & ~EVM_INIT_MASK) != 0)
return -EINVAL;
- /* Don't allow a request to freshly enable metadata writes if
- * keys are loaded.
+ /*
+ * Don't allow a request to enable metadata writes if
+ * an HMAC key is loaded.
*/
if ((i & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES) &&
- ((evm_initialized & EVM_KEY_MASK) != 0) &&
- !(evm_initialized & EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES))
+ (evm_initialized & EVM_INIT_HMAC) != 0)
return -EPERM;
if (i & EVM_INIT_HMAC) {