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authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-05-11 00:05:23 -0400
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-07-11 13:33:50 +0100
commit0d2b9938c49c716b35409aefee188e8c0b95d537 (patch)
tree5f52a2445762d498686b1b207e4b3c70641ef004 /security
parent335a4d5ba599428c32e6bdf726cd7f20553220a9 (diff)
evm: prohibit userspace writing 'security.evm' HMAC value
commit 2fb1c9a4f2dbc2f0bd2431c7fa64d0b5483864e4 upstream. Calculating the 'security.evm' HMAC value requires access to the EVM encrypted key. Only the kernel should have access to it. This patch prevents userspace tools(eg. setfattr, cp --preserve=xattr) from setting/modifying the 'security.evm' HMAC value directly. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
index 92d3d99a9f7b..34398726953c 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -207,12 +207,20 @@ static int evm_protect_xattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
* @xattr_value: pointer to the new extended attribute value
* @xattr_value_len: pointer to the new extended attribute value length
*
- * Updating 'security.evm' requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges and that
- * the current value is valid.
+ * Before allowing the 'security.evm' protected xattr to be updated,
+ * verify the existing value is valid. As only the kernel should have
+ * access to the EVM encrypted key needed to calculate the HMAC, prevent
+ * userspace from writing HMAC value. Writing 'security.evm' requires
+ * requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges.
*/
int evm_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
const void *xattr_value, size_t xattr_value_len)
{
+ const struct evm_ima_xattr_data *xattr_data = xattr_value;
+
+ if ((strcmp(xattr_name, XATTR_NAME_EVM) == 0)
+ && (xattr_data->type == EVM_XATTR_HMAC))
+ return -EPERM;
return evm_protect_xattr(dentry, xattr_name, xattr_value,
xattr_value_len);
}