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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt | 89 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Smack.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Yama.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/keys.txt | 87 |
5 files changed, 206 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX index eeed1de546d..45c82fd3e9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ apparmor.txt - documentation on the AppArmor security extension. credentials.txt - documentation about credentials in Linux. +keys-ecryptfs.txt + - description of the encryption keys for the ecryptfs filesystem. keys-request-key.txt - description of the kernel key request service. keys-trusted-encrypted.txt @@ -20,3 +22,5 @@ keys.txt - description of the kernel key retention service. tomoyo.txt - documentation on the TOMOYO Linux Security Module. +IMA-templates.txt + - documentation on the template management mechanism for IMA. diff --git a/Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt b/Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a4e102dddfe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ + IMA Template Management Mechanism + + +==== INTRODUCTION ==== + +The original 'ima' template is fixed length, containing the filedata hash +and pathname. The filedata hash is limited to 20 bytes (md5/sha1). +The pathname is a null terminated string, limited to 255 characters. +To overcome these limitations and to add additional file metadata, it is +necessary to extend the current version of IMA by defining additional +templates. For example, information that could be possibly reported are +the inode UID/GID or the LSM labels either of the inode and of the process +that is accessing it. + +However, the main problem to introduce this feature is that, each time +a new template is defined, the functions that generate and display +the measurements list would include the code for handling a new format +and, thus, would significantly grow over the time. + +The proposed solution solves this problem by separating the template +management from the remaining IMA code. The core of this solution is the +definition of two new data structures: a template descriptor, to determine +which information should be included in the measurement list; a template +field, to generate and display data of a given type. + +Managing templates with these structures is very simple. To support +a new data type, developers define the field identifier and implement +two functions, init() and show(), respectively to generate and display +measurement entries. Defining a new template descriptor requires +specifying the template format, a string of field identifiers separated +by the '|' character. While in the current implementation it is possible +to define new template descriptors only by adding their definition in the +template specific code (ima_template.c), in a future version it will be +possible to register a new template on a running kernel by supplying to IMA +the desired format string. In this version, IMA initializes at boot time +all defined template descriptors by translating the format into an array +of template fields structures taken from the set of the supported ones. + +After the initialization step, IMA will call ima_alloc_init_template() +(new function defined within the patches for the new template management +mechanism) to generate a new measurement entry by using the template +descriptor chosen through the kernel configuration or through the newly +introduced 'ima_template=' kernel command line parameter. It is during this +phase that the advantages of the new architecture are clearly shown: +the latter function will not contain specific code to handle a given template +but, instead, it simply calls the init() method of the template fields +associated to the chosen template descriptor and store the result (pointer +to allocated data and data length) in the measurement entry structure. + +The same mechanism is employed to display measurements entries. +The functions ima[_ascii]_measurements_show() retrieve, for each entry, +the template descriptor used to produce that entry and call the show() +method for each item of the array of template fields structures. + + + +==== SUPPORTED TEMPLATE FIELDS AND DESCRIPTORS ==== + +In the following, there is the list of supported template fields +('<identifier>': description), that can be used to define new template +descriptors by adding their identifier to the format string +(support for more data types will be added later): + + - 'd': the digest of the event (i.e. the digest of a measured file), + calculated with the SHA1 or MD5 hash algorithm; + - 'n': the name of the event (i.e. the file name), with size up to 255 bytes; + - 'd-ng': the digest of the event, calculated with an arbitrary hash + algorithm (field format: [<hash algo>:]digest, where the digest + prefix is shown only if the hash algorithm is not SHA1 or MD5); + - 'n-ng': the name of the event, without size limitations; + - 'sig': the file signature. + + +Below, there is the list of defined template descriptors: + - "ima": its format is 'd|n'; + - "ima-ng" (default): its format is 'd-ng|n-ng'; + - "ima-sig": its format is 'd-ng|n-ng|sig'. + + + +==== USE ==== + +To specify the template descriptor to be used to generate measurement entries, +currently the following methods are supported: + + - select a template descriptor among those supported in the kernel + configuration ('ima-ng' is the default choice); + - specify a template descriptor name from the kernel command line through + the 'ima_template=' parameter. diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt index a416479b8a1..b6ef7e9dba3 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "Good for you, you've decided to clean the elevator!" - The Elevator, from Dark Star -Smack is the the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. +Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. Smack is a kernel based implementation of mandatory access control that includes simplicity in its primary design goals. @@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ Smack kernels use the CIPSO IP option. Some network configurations are intolerant of IP options and can impede access to systems that use them as Smack does. -The current git repositories for Smack user space are: +The current git repository for Smack user space is: - git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/smackutil.git - git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/libsmack.git + git://github.com/smack-team/smack.git -These should make and install on most modern distributions. +This should make and install on most modern distributions. There are three commands included in smackutil: smackload - properly formats data for writing to /smack/load @@ -118,6 +117,17 @@ access2 ambient This contains the Smack label applied to unlabeled network packets. +change-rule + This interface allows modification of existing access control rules. + The format accepted on write is: + "%s %s %s %s" + where the first string is the subject label, the second the + object label, the third the access to allow and the fourth the + access to deny. The access strings may contain only the characters + "rwxat-". If a rule for a given subject and object exists it will be + modified by enabling the permissions in the third string and disabling + those in the fourth string. If there is no such rule it will be + created using the access specified in the third and the fourth strings. cipso This interface allows a specific CIPSO header to be assigned to a Smack label. The format accepted on write is: @@ -194,6 +204,19 @@ onlycap these capabilities are effective at for processes with any label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the file or cleared by writing "-" to the file. +ptrace + This is used to define the current ptrace policy + 0 - default: this is the policy that relies on smack access rules. + For the PTRACE_READ a subject needs to have a read access on + object. For the PTRACE_ATTACH a read-write access is required. + 1 - exact: this is the policy that limits PTRACE_ATTACH. Attach is + only allowed when subject's and object's labels are equal. + PTRACE_READ is not affected. Can be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE. + 2 - draconian: this policy behaves like the 'exact' above with an + exception that it can't be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE. +revoke-subject + Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access + rules with that subject label. You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: diff --git a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt index e369de2d48c..227a63f018a 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ still work as root). In mode 1, software that has defined application-specific relationships between a debugging process and its inferior (crash handlers, etc), prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, pid, ...) can be used. An inferior can declare which -other process (and its descendents) are allowed to call PTRACE_ATTACH +other process (and its descendants) are allowed to call PTRACE_ATTACH against it. Only one such declared debugging process can exists for each inferior at a time. For example, this is used by KDE, Chromium, and Firefox's crash handlers, and by Wine for allowing only Wine processes @@ -46,14 +46,13 @@ restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...) so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces) may attach. -These restrictions do not change how ptrace via PTRACE_TRACEME operates. - -The sysctl settings are: +The sysctl settings (writable only with CAP_SYS_PTRACE) are: 0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e. did not transition uids, start privileged, or have called - prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already). + prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already). Similarly, PTRACE_TRACEME is + unchanged. 1 - restricted ptrace: a process must have a predefined relationship with the inferior it wants to call PTRACE_ATTACH on. By default, @@ -61,12 +60,13 @@ The sysctl settings are: classic criteria is also met. To change the relationship, an inferior can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, debugger, ...) to declare an allowed debugger PID to call PTRACE_ATTACH on the inferior. + Using PTRACE_TRACEME is unchanged. 2 - admin-only attach: only processes with CAP_SYS_PTRACE may use ptrace - with PTRACE_ATTACH. + with PTRACE_ATTACH, or through children calling PTRACE_TRACEME. -3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH. Once set, - this sysctl cannot be changed to a lower value. +3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH nor via + PTRACE_TRACEME. Once set, this sysctl value cannot be changed. The original children-only logic was based on the restrictions in grsecurity. diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt index aa0dbd74b71..a4c33f1a7c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt @@ -412,6 +412,10 @@ The main syscalls are: to the keyring. In this case, an error will be generated if the process does not have permission to write to the keyring. + If the key type supports it, if the description is NULL or an empty + string, the key type will try and generate a description from the content + of the payload. + The payload is optional, and the pointer can be NULL if not required by the type. The payload is plen in size, and plen can be zero for an empty payload. @@ -861,15 +865,14 @@ encountered: calling processes has a searchable link to the key from one of its keyrings. There are three functions for dealing with these: - key_ref_t make_key_ref(const struct key *key, - unsigned long possession); + key_ref_t make_key_ref(const struct key *key, bool possession); struct key *key_ref_to_ptr(const key_ref_t key_ref); - unsigned long is_key_possessed(const key_ref_t key_ref); + bool is_key_possessed(const key_ref_t key_ref); The first function constructs a key reference from a key pointer and - possession information (which must be 0 or 1 and not any other value). + possession information (which must be true or false). The second function retrieves the key pointer from a reference and the third retrieves the possession flag. @@ -957,14 +960,17 @@ payload contents" for more information. the argument will not be parsed. -(*) Extra references can be made to a key by calling the following function: +(*) Extra references can be made to a key by calling one of the following + functions: + struct key *__key_get(struct key *key); struct key *key_get(struct key *key); - These need to be disposed of by calling key_put() when they've been - finished with. The key pointer passed in will be returned. If the pointer - is NULL or CONFIG_KEYS is not set then the key will not be dereferenced and - no increment will take place. + Keys so references will need to be disposed of by calling key_put() when + they've been finished with. The key pointer passed in will be returned. + + In the case of key_get(), if the pointer is NULL or CONFIG_KEYS is not set + then the key will not be dereferenced and no increment will take place. (*) A key's serial number can be obtained by calling: @@ -990,6 +996,23 @@ payload contents" for more information. reference pointer if successful. +(*) A keyring can be created by: + + struct key *keyring_alloc(const char *description, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, + const struct cred *cred, + key_perm_t perm, + unsigned long flags, + struct key *dest); + + This creates a keyring with the given attributes and returns it. If dest + is not NULL, the new keyring will be linked into the keyring to which it + points. No permission checks are made upon the destination keyring. + + Error EDQUOT can be returned if the keyring would overload the quota (pass + KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA in flags if the keyring shouldn't be accounted + towards the user's quota). Error ENOMEM can also be returned. + + (*) To check the validity of a key, this function can be called: int validate_key(struct key *key); @@ -1114,12 +1137,53 @@ The structure has a number of fields, some of which are mandatory: it should return 0. - (*) int (*instantiate)(struct key *key, const void *data, size_t datalen); + (*) int (*preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep); + + This optional method permits the key type to attempt to parse payload + before a key is created (add key) or the key semaphore is taken (update or + instantiate key). The structure pointed to by prep looks like: + + struct key_preparsed_payload { + char *description; + void *type_data[2]; + void *payload; + const void *data; + size_t datalen; + size_t quotalen; + }; + + Before calling the method, the caller will fill in data and datalen with + the payload blob parameters; quotalen will be filled in with the default + quota size from the key type and the rest will be cleared. + + If a description can be proposed from the payload contents, that should be + attached as a string to the description field. This will be used for the + key description if the caller of add_key() passes NULL or "". + + The method can attach anything it likes to type_data[] and payload. These + are merely passed along to the instantiate() or update() operations. + + The method should return 0 if success ful or a negative error code + otherwise. + + + (*) void (*free_preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep); + + This method is only required if the preparse() method is provided, + otherwise it is unused. It cleans up anything attached to the + description, type_data and payload fields of the key_preparsed_payload + struct as filled in by the preparse() method. + + + (*) int (*instantiate)(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep); This method is called to attach a payload to a key during construction. The payload attached need not bear any relation to the data passed to this function. + The prep->data and prep->datalen fields will define the original payload + blob. If preparse() was supplied then other fields may be filled in also. + If the amount of data attached to the key differs from the size in keytype->def_datalen, then key_payload_reserve() should be called. @@ -1135,6 +1199,9 @@ The structure has a number of fields, some of which are mandatory: If this type of key can be updated, then this method should be provided. It is called to update a key's payload from the blob of data provided. + The prep->data and prep->datalen fields will define the original payload + blob. If preparse() was supplied then other fields may be filled in also. + key_payload_reserve() should be called if the data length might change before any changes are actually made. Note that if this succeeds, the type is committed to changing the key because it's already been altered, so all |