Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Enable root to update the blacklist keyring

From: Eric Snowberg
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 12:43:15 EST



> On Feb 21, 2021, at 4:17 AM, Mickaël Salaün <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> David, Eric, what is the status of this patch series?

All the previous issues I had identified have been resolved, so LGTM.

> On 10/02/2021 13:04, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>> This new patch series is a rebase on David Howells's keys-misc branch.
>> This mainly fixes UEFI DBX and the new Eric Snowberg's feature to import
>> asymmetric keys to the blacklist keyring.
>> I successfully tested this patch series with the 186 entries from
>> https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/dbxupdate_x64.bin (184
>> binary hashes and 2 certificates).
>>
>> The goal of these patches is to add a new configuration option to enable the
>> root user to load signed keys in the blacklist keyring. This keyring is useful
>> to "untrust" certificates or files. Enabling to safely update this keyring
>> without recompiling the kernel makes it more usable.
>>
>> This can be applied on top of David Howells's keys-next branch:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-next
>> Git commits can be found in https://github.com/l0kod/linux branch
>> dyn-auth-blacklist-v6 commit fcf976b74ffcd4551683e6b70dbf5fb102cf9906 .
>>
>> Previous patch series:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210128191705.3568820-1-mic@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mickaël Salaün (5):
>> tools/certs: Add print-cert-tbs-hash.sh
>> certs: Check that builtin blacklist hashes are valid
>> certs: Make blacklist_vet_description() more strict
>> certs: Factor out the blacklist hash creation
>> certs: Allow root user to append signed hashes to the blacklist
>> keyring
>>
>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +
>> certs/.gitignore | 1 +
>> certs/Kconfig | 17 +-
>> certs/Makefile | 17 +-
>> certs/blacklist.c | 218 ++++++++++++++----
>> crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c | 3 +-
>> include/keys/system_keyring.h | 14 +-
>> scripts/check-blacklist-hashes.awk | 37 +++
>> .../platform_certs/keyring_handler.c | 26 +--
>> tools/certs/print-cert-tbs-hash.sh | 91 ++++++++
>> 10 files changed, 346 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100755 scripts/check-blacklist-hashes.awk
>> create mode 100755 tools/certs/print-cert-tbs-hash.sh
>>
>>
>> base-commit: 5bcd72358a7d7794ade0452ed12919b8c4d6ffc7
>>