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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2026-08-28 19:52:17 +0200
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2026-08-29 18:17:50 -0700
commit264d8fd2794fabe76a89abd5d4f5f8c1ed5fad85 (patch)
treeb141d389ba6fbc43eda0efeddf904bdbefe8b7a1 /tools/lib/python
parent6ae934b5b799446b58f327d723b4acd3178e9330 (diff)
bpf, keys: Add a bpf keyring for program signature validation
BPF program signatures can currently be verified against one of the system keyrings (builtin, secondary, platform) or against an arbitrary user/session caller-supplied keyring named through keyring_id. There is nothing in between: the system keyrings need a kernel rebuild or a vouched-for enrollment to rotate a key, while a caller-supplied keyring is fully controlled by the loader and therefore carries no trust on its own (unless explicitly combined with BPF LSM to protect against key tampering). Add a dedicated bpf keyring to fill that gap, modelled after the dm-verity keyring which was added in commit 033724b1c627 ("dm-verity: add dm-verity keyring") and which can eventually be used also via systemd [0] through the same enrollment method as in dm-verity's case. It is selected with the new KEY_SPEC_BPF_KEYRING special key id and gives an operator a place to enroll a BPF-only signing key at boot, specifically scoped to BPF program loading and nothing else in the kernel's trust hierarchy. The id is reserved from the KEY_SPEC space so that the latter is not linked into any process keyring, and lookup_user_key() resolves KEY_SPEC_BPF_KEYRING constant instead of having to look it up via /proc/keys first. By default the keyring is sealed empty at init. Systems that want to provision keys pass bpf.keyring_unsealed=1, which leaves the keyring open for the initrd to add keys to. The keyring is only ever consulted once it is both non-empty and restricted. An unrestricted keyring is ignored. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/43549 [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260828175227.1537793-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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