[PATCH v2 08/12] evm: Allow xattr/attr operations for portable signatures if check fails

[Roberto Sassu]

If files with portable signatures are copied from one location to another
or are extracted from an archive, verification can temporarily fail until
all xattrs/attrs are set in the destination. Only portable signatures may
be moved or copied from one file to another, as they don't depend on
system-specific information such as the inode generation. Instead portable
signatures must include security.ima.

Unlike other security.evm types, EVM portable signatures are also
immutable. Thus, it wouldn't be a problem to allow xattr/attr operations
when verification fails, as portable signatures will never be replaced with
an HMAC on possibly corrupted xattrs/attrs.

This patch first introduces a new integrity status called
INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE, that allows callers of
evm_verify_current_integrity() to detect that a portable signature didn't
pass verification and then adds an exception in evm_protect_xattr() and
evm_inode_setattr() for this status and returns 0 instead of -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/integrity.h             |  1 +
 security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c     | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/integrity.h b/include/linux/integrity.h
index 2271939c5c31..2ea0f2f65ab6 100644
--- a/include/linux/integrity.h
+++ b/include/linux/integrity.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ enum integrity_status {
 	INTEGRITY_PASS = 0,
 	INTEGRITY_PASS_IMMUTABLE,
 	INTEGRITY_FAIL,
+	INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE,
 	INTEGRITY_NOLABEL,
 	INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS,
 	INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN,
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
index 05be1ad3e6f3..a5dab1ac9374 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 int evm_initialized;
 
 static const char * const integrity_status_msg[] = {
-	"pass", "pass_immutable", "fail", "no_label", "no_xattrs", "unknown"
+	"pass", "pass_immutable", "fail", "fail_immutable", "no_label",
+	"no_xattrs", "unknown"
 };
 int evm_hmac_attrs;
 
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ static enum integrity_status evm_verify_hmac(struct dentry *dentry,
 	enum integrity_status evm_status = INTEGRITY_PASS;
 	struct evm_digest digest;
 	struct inode *inode;
-	int rc, xattr_len;
+	int rc, xattr_len, evm_immutable = 0;
 
 	if (iint && (iint->evm_status == INTEGRITY_PASS ||
 		     iint->evm_status == INTEGRITY_PASS_IMMUTABLE))
@@ -179,8 +180,10 @@ static enum integrity_status evm_verify_hmac(struct dentry *dentry,
 		if (rc)
 			rc = -EINVAL;
 		break;
-	case EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG:
 	case EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG:
+		evm_immutable = 1;
+		fallthrough;
+	case EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG:
 		/* accept xattr with non-empty signature field */
 		if (xattr_len <= sizeof(struct signature_v2_hdr)) {
 			evm_status = INTEGRITY_FAIL;
@@ -217,9 +220,12 @@ static enum integrity_status evm_verify_hmac(struct dentry *dentry,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (rc)
-		evm_status = (rc == -ENODATA) ?
-				INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS : INTEGRITY_FAIL;
+	if (rc) {
+		evm_status = INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS;
+		if (rc != -ENODATA)
+			evm_status = evm_immutable ?
+				     INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE : INTEGRITY_FAIL;
+	}
 out:
 	if (iint) {
 		/*
@@ -358,6 +364,12 @@ static int evm_protect_xattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
 				    -EPERM, 0);
 	}
 out:
+	/* Writing other xattrs is safe for portable signatures, as portable
+	 * signatures are immutable and can never be updated.
+	 */
+	if (evm_status == INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (evm_status != INTEGRITY_PASS)
 		integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_METADATA, d_backing_inode(dentry),
 				    dentry->d_name.name, "appraise_metadata",
@@ -499,9 +511,14 @@ int evm_inode_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	if (!(ia_valid & (ATTR_MODE | ATTR_UID | ATTR_GID)))
 		return 0;
 	evm_status = evm_verify_current_integrity(dentry);
+	/* Writing attrs is safe for portable signatures, as portable signatures
+	 * are immutable and can never be updated.
+	 */
 	if ((evm_status == INTEGRITY_PASS) ||
-	    (evm_status == INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS))
+	    (evm_status == INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS) ||
+	    (evm_status == INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE))
 		return 0;
+
 	integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_METADATA, d_backing_inode(dentry),
 			    dentry->d_name.name, "appraise_metadata",
 			    integrity_status_msg[evm_status], -EPERM, 0);
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
index b8848f53c8cc..4d682bc3a77f 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(enum ima_hooks func,
 	case INTEGRITY_NOLABEL:		/* No security.evm xattr. */
 		cause = "missing-HMAC";
 		goto out;
+	case INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE:
+		fallthrough;
 	case INTEGRITY_FAIL:		/* Invalid HMAC/signature. */
 		cause = "invalid-HMAC";
 		goto out;
-- 
2.27.GIT