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Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore taking over as maintainer of that code. Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor" and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling, here's the explanation from David Howells on that: "Okay. There are a number of separate bits. I'll go over the big bits and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just fixes and cleanups. If you want the small bits accounting for, I can do that too. (1) Keyring capacity expansion. KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access KEYS: Introduce a search context structure KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID Add a generic associative array implementation. KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a keyring. Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page. Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box. However, since the NFS idmapper uses a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to the cause. Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings may point to a single key. This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node struct into the key struct for this purpose. I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored in the keyring. It would, however, be able to use much existing code. I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio. I could have used the radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over the whole radix tree. Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree. So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key type pointer and the key description. This means that an exact lookup by type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to the target key. I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a pointer. It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it also. FS-Cache might, for example. (2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'. KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the addition or linkage of trusted keys. Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel during build are marked as being trusted automatically. New keys can be loaded at runtime with add_key(). They are checked against the system keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can thus be added into the master keyring. Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also. (3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature. X.509: Remove certificate date checks It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is loaded - so just remove those checks. (4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel. KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509" into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section. (5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings. KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs. We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more easily. To make this work, two things were needed: (a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them. The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out happens), so neither of these places is suitable. I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is created for each UID on request. Each time a user requests their persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew. If the user doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically expired and garbage collected using the existing gc. All the kerberos tokens it held are then also gc'd. (b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size). The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots of auxiliary data attached. We don't, however, want to eat up huge tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an inode and a dentry overhead. If the ticket is smaller than that, we slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer" * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits) KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent() KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL() KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate() KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain() apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting Smack: Ptrace access check mode ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt87
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys.txt20
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+ ========================================
+ GENERIC ASSOCIATIVE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATION
+ ========================================
+
+Contents:
+
+ - Overview.
+
+ - The public API.
+ - Edit script.
+ - Operations table.
+ - Manipulation functions.
+ - Access functions.
+ - Index key form.
+
+ - Internal workings.
+ - Basic internal tree layout.
+ - Shortcuts.
+ - Splitting and collapsing nodes.
+ - Non-recursive iteration.
+ - Simultaneous alteration and iteration.
+
+
+========
+OVERVIEW
+========
+
+This associative array implementation is an object container with the following
+properties:
+
+ (1) Objects are opaque pointers. The implementation does not care where they
+ point (if anywhere) or what they point to (if anything).
+
+ [!] NOTE: Pointers to objects _must_ be zero in the least significant bit.
+
+ (2) Objects do not need to contain linkage blocks for use by the array. This
+ permits an object to be located in multiple arrays simultaneously.
+ Rather, the array is made up of metadata blocks that point to objects.
+
+ (3) Objects require index keys to locate them within the array.
+
+ (4) Index keys must be unique. Inserting an object with the same key as one
+ already in the array will replace the old object.
+
+ (5) Index keys can be of any length and can be of different lengths.
+
+ (6) Index keys should encode the length early on, before any variation due to
+ length is seen.
+
+ (7) Index keys can include a hash to scatter objects throughout the array.
+
+ (8) The array can iterated over. The objects will not necessarily come out in
+ key order.
+
+ (9) The array can be iterated over whilst it is being modified, provided the
+ RCU readlock is being held by the iterator. Note, however, under these
+ circumstances, some objects may be seen more than once. If this is a
+ problem, the iterator should lock against modification. Objects will not
+ be missed, however, unless deleted.
+
+(10) Objects in the array can be looked up by means of their index key.
+
+(11) Objects can be looked up whilst the array is being modified, provided the
+ RCU readlock is being held by the thread doing the look up.
+
+The implementation uses a tree of 16-pointer nodes internally that are indexed
+on each level by nibbles from the index key in the same manner as in a radix
+tree. To improve memory efficiency, shortcuts can be emplaced to skip over
+what would otherwise be a series of single-occupancy nodes. Further, nodes
+pack leaf object pointers into spare space in the node rather than making an
+extra branch until as such time an object needs to be added to a full node.
+
+
+==============
+THE PUBLIC API
+==============
+
+The public API can be found in <linux/assoc_array.h>. The associative array is
+rooted on the following structure:
+
+ struct assoc_array {
+ ...
+ };
+
+The code is selected by enabling CONFIG_ASSOCIATIVE_ARRAY.
+
+
+EDIT SCRIPT
+-----------
+
+The insertion and deletion functions produce an 'edit script' that can later be
+applied to effect the changes without risking ENOMEM. This retains the
+preallocated metadata blocks that will be installed in the internal tree and
+keeps track of the metadata blocks that will be removed from the tree when the
+script is applied.
+
+This is also used to keep track of dead blocks and dead objects after the
+script has been applied so that they can be freed later. The freeing is done
+after an RCU grace period has passed - thus allowing access functions to
+proceed under the RCU read lock.
+
+The script appears as outside of the API as a pointer of the type:
+
+ struct assoc_array_edit;
+
+There are two functions for dealing with the script:
+
+ (1) Apply an edit script.
+
+ void assoc_array_apply_edit(struct assoc_array_edit *edit);
+
+ This will perform the edit functions, interpolating various write barriers
+ to permit accesses under the RCU read lock to continue. The edit script
+ will then be passed to call_rcu() to free it and any dead stuff it points
+ to.
+
+ (2) Cancel an edit script.
+
+ void assoc_array_cancel_edit(struct assoc_array_edit *edit);
+
+ This frees the edit script and all preallocated memory immediately. If
+ this was for insertion, the new object is _not_ released by this function,
+ but must rather be released by the caller.
+
+These functions are guaranteed not to fail.
+
+
+OPERATIONS TABLE
+----------------
+
+Various functions take a table of operations:
+
+ struct assoc_array_ops {
+ ...
+ };
+
+This points to a number of methods, all of which need to be provided:
+
+ (1) Get a chunk of index key from caller data:
+
+ unsigned long (*get_key_chunk)(const void *index_key, int level);
+
+ This should return a chunk of caller-supplied index key starting at the
+ *bit* position given by the level argument. The level argument will be a
+ multiple of ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SIZE and the function should return
+ ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SIZE bits. No error is possible.
+
+
+ (2) Get a chunk of an object's index key.
+
+ unsigned long (*get_object_key_chunk)(const void *object, int level);
+
+ As the previous function, but gets its data from an object in the array
+ rather than from a caller-supplied index key.
+
+
+ (3) See if this is the object we're looking for.
+
+ bool (*compare_object)(const void *object, const void *index_key);
+
+ Compare the object against an index key and return true if it matches and
+ false if it doesn't.
+
+
+ (4) Diff the index keys of two objects.
+
+ int (*diff_objects)(const void *a, const void *b);
+
+ Return the bit position at which the index keys of two objects differ or
+ -1 if they are the same.
+
+
+ (5) Free an object.
+
+ void (*free_object)(void *object);
+
+ Free the specified object. Note that this may be called an RCU grace
+ period after assoc_array_apply_edit() was called, so synchronize_rcu() may
+ be necessary on module unloading.
+
+
+MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS
+----------------------
+
+There are a number of functions for manipulating an associative array:
+
+ (1) Initialise an associative array.
+
+ void assoc_array_init(struct assoc_array *array);
+
+ This initialises the base structure for an associative array. It can't
+ fail.
+
+
+ (2) Insert/replace an object in an associative array.
+
+ struct assoc_array_edit *
+ assoc_array_insert(struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops,
+ const void *index_key,
+ void *object);
+
+ This inserts the given object into the array. Note that the least
+ significant bit of the pointer must be zero as it's used to type-mark
+ pointers internally.
+
+ If an object already exists for that key then it will be replaced with the
+ new object and the old one will be freed automatically.
+
+ The index_key argument should hold index key information and is
+ passed to the methods in the ops table when they are called.
+
+ This function makes no alteration to the array itself, but rather returns
+ an edit script that must be applied. -ENOMEM is returned in the case of
+ an out-of-memory error.
+
+ The caller should lock exclusively against other modifiers of the array.
+
+
+ (3) Delete an object from an associative array.
+
+ struct assoc_array_edit *
+ assoc_array_delete(struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops,
+ const void *index_key);
+
+ This deletes an object that matches the specified data from the array.
+
+ The index_key argument should hold index key information and is
+ passed to the methods in the ops table when they are called.
+
+ This function makes no alteration to the array itself, but rather returns
+ an edit script that must be applied. -ENOMEM is returned in the case of
+ an out-of-memory error. NULL will be returned if the specified object is
+ not found within the array.
+
+ The caller should lock exclusively against other modifiers of the array.
+
+
+ (4) Delete all objects from an associative array.
+
+ struct assoc_array_edit *
+ assoc_array_clear(struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops);
+
+ This deletes all the objects from an associative array and leaves it
+ completely empty.
+
+ This function makes no alteration to the array itself, but rather returns
+ an edit script that must be applied. -ENOMEM is returned in the case of
+ an out-of-memory error.
+
+ The caller should lock exclusively against other modifiers of the array.
+
+
+ (5) Destroy an associative array, deleting all objects.
+
+ void assoc_array_destroy(struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops);
+
+ This destroys the contents of the associative array and leaves it
+ completely empty. It is not permitted for another thread to be traversing
+ the array under the RCU read lock at the same time as this function is
+ destroying it as no RCU deferral is performed on memory release -
+ something that would require memory to be allocated.
+
+ The caller should lock exclusively against other modifiers and accessors
+ of the array.
+
+
+ (6) Garbage collect an associative array.
+
+ int assoc_array_gc(struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops,
+ bool (*iterator)(void *object, void *iterator_data),
+ void *iterator_data);
+
+ This iterates over the objects in an associative array and passes each one
+ to iterator(). If iterator() returns true, the object is kept. If it
+ returns false, the object will be freed. If the iterator() function
+ returns true, it must perform any appropriate refcount incrementing on the
+ object before returning.
+
+ The internal tree will be packed down if possible as part of the iteration
+ to reduce the number of nodes in it.
+
+ The iterator_data is passed directly to iterator() and is otherwise
+ ignored by the function.
+
+ The function will return 0 if successful and -ENOMEM if there wasn't
+ enough memory.
+
+ It is possible for other threads to iterate over or search the array under
+ the RCU read lock whilst this function is in progress. The caller should
+ lock exclusively against other modifiers of the array.
+
+
+ACCESS FUNCTIONS
+----------------
+
+There are two functions for accessing an associative array:
+
+ (1) Iterate over all the objects in an associative array.
+
+ int assoc_array_iterate(const struct assoc_array *array,
+ int (*iterator)(const void *object,
+ void *iterator_data),
+ void *iterator_data);
+
+ This passes each object in the array to the iterator callback function.
+ iterator_data is private data for that function.
+
+ This may be used on an array at the same time as the array is being
+ modified, provided the RCU read lock is held. Under such circumstances,
+ it is possible for the iteration function to see some objects twice. If
+ this is a problem, then modification should be locked against. The
+ iteration algorithm should not, however, miss any objects.
+
+ The function will return 0 if no objects were in the array or else it will
+ return the result of the last iterator function called. Iteration stops
+ immediately if any call to the iteration function results in a non-zero
+ return.
+
+
+ (2) Find an object in an associative array.
+
+ void *assoc_array_find(const struct assoc_array *array,
+ const struct assoc_array_ops *ops,
+ const void *index_key);
+
+ This walks through the array's internal tree directly to the object
+ specified by the index key..
+
+ This may be used on an array at the same time as the array is being
+ modified, provided the RCU read lock is held.
+
+ The function will return the object if found (and set *_type to the object
+ type) or will return NULL if the object was not found.
+
+
+INDEX KEY FORM
+--------------
+
+The index key can be of any form, but since the algorithms aren't told how long
+the key is, it is strongly recommended that the index key includes its length
+very early on before any variation due to the length would have an effect on
+comparisons.
+
+This will cause leaves with different length keys to scatter away from each
+other - and those with the same length keys to cluster together.
+
+It is also recommended that the index key begin with a hash of the rest of the
+key to maximise scattering throughout keyspace.
+
+The better the scattering, the wider and lower the internal tree will be.
+
+Poor scattering isn't too much of a problem as there are shortcuts and nodes
+can contain mixtures of leaves and metadata pointers.
+
+The index key is read in chunks of machine word. Each chunk is subdivided into
+one nibble (4 bits) per level, so on a 32-bit CPU this is good for 8 levels and
+on a 64-bit CPU, 16 levels. Unless the scattering is really poor, it is
+unlikely that more than one word of any particular index key will have to be
+used.
+
+
+=================
+INTERNAL WORKINGS
+=================
+
+The associative array data structure has an internal tree. This tree is
+constructed of two types of metadata blocks: nodes and shortcuts.
+
+A node is an array of slots. Each slot can contain one of four things:
+
+ (*) A NULL pointer, indicating that the slot is empty.
+
+ (*) A pointer to an object (a leaf).
+
+ (*) A pointer to a node at the next level.
+
+ (*) A pointer to a shortcut.
+
+
+BASIC INTERNAL TREE LAYOUT
+--------------------------
+
+Ignoring shortcuts for the moment, the nodes form a multilevel tree. The index
+key space is strictly subdivided by the nodes in the tree and nodes occur on
+fixed levels. For example:
+
+ Level: 0 1 2 3
+ =============== =============== =============== ===============
+ NODE D
+ NODE B NODE C +------>+---+
+ +------>+---+ +------>+---+ | | 0 |
+ NODE A | | 0 | | | 0 | | +---+
+ +---+ | +---+ | +---+ | : :
+ | 0 | | : : | : : | +---+
+ +---+ | +---+ | +---+ | | f |
+ | 1 |---+ | 3 |---+ | 7 |---+ +---+
+ +---+ +---+ +---+
+ : : : : | 8 |---+
+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | NODE E
+ | e |---+ | f | : : +------>+---+
+ +---+ | +---+ +---+ | 0 |
+ | f | | | f | +---+
+ +---+ | +---+ : :
+ | NODE F +---+
+ +------>+---+ | f |
+ | 0 | NODE G +---+
+ +---+ +------>+---+
+ : : | | 0 |
+ +---+ | +---+
+ | 6 |---+ : :
+ +---+ +---+
+ : : | f |
+ +---+ +---+
+ | f |
+ +---+
+
+In the above example, there are 7 nodes (A-G), each with 16 slots (0-f).
+Assuming no other meta data nodes in the tree, the key space is divided thusly:
+
+ KEY PREFIX NODE
+ ========== ====
+ 137* D
+ 138* E
+ 13[0-69-f]* C
+ 1[0-24-f]* B
+ e6* G
+ e[0-57-f]* F
+ [02-df]* A
+
+So, for instance, keys with the following example index keys will be found in
+the appropriate nodes:
+
+ INDEX KEY PREFIX NODE
+ =============== ======= ====
+ 13694892892489 13 C
+ 13795289025897 137 D
+ 13889dde88793 138 E
+ 138bbb89003093 138 E
+ 1394879524789 12 C
+ 1458952489 1 B
+ 9431809de993ba - A
+ b4542910809cd - A
+ e5284310def98 e F
+ e68428974237 e6 G
+ e7fffcbd443 e F
+ f3842239082 - A
+
+To save memory, if a node can hold all the leaves in its portion of keyspace,
+then the node will have all those leaves in it and will not have any metadata
+pointers - even if some of those leaves would like to be in the same slot.
+
+A node can contain a heterogeneous mix of leaves and metadata pointers.
+Metadata pointers must be in the slots that match their subdivisions of key
+space. The leaves can be in any slot not occupied by a metadata pointer. It
+is guaranteed that none of the leaves in a node will match a slot occupied by a
+metadata pointer. If the metadata pointer is there, any leaf whose key matches
+the metadata key prefix must be in the subtree that the metadata pointer points
+to.
+
+In the above example list of index keys, node A will contain:
+
+ SLOT CONTENT INDEX KEY (PREFIX)
+ ==== =============== ==================
+ 1 PTR TO NODE B 1*
+ any LEAF 9431809de993ba
+ any LEAF b4542910809cd
+ e PTR TO NODE F e*
+ any LEAF f3842239082
+
+and node B:
+
+ 3 PTR TO NODE C 13*
+ any LEAF 1458952489
+
+
+SHORTCUTS
+---------
+
+Shortcuts are metadata records that jump over a piece of keyspace. A shortcut
+is a replacement for a series of single-occupancy nodes ascending through the
+levels. Shortcuts exist to save memory and to speed up traversal.
+
+It is possible for the root of the tree to be a shortcut - say, for example,
+the tree contains at least 17 nodes all with key prefix '1111'. The insertion
+algorithm will insert a shortcut to skip over the '1111' keyspace in a single
+bound and get to the fourth level where these actually become different.
+
+
+SPLITTING AND COLLAPSING NODES
+------------------------------
+
+Each node has a maximum capacity of 16 leaves and metadata pointers. If the
+insertion algorithm finds that it is trying to insert a 17th object into a
+node, that node will be split such that at least two leaves that have a common
+key segment at that level end up in a separate node rooted on that slot for
+that common key segment.
+
+If the leaves in a full node and the leaf that is being inserted are
+sufficiently similar, then a shortcut will be inserted into the tree.
+
+When the number of objects in the subtree rooted at a node falls to 16 or
+fewer, then the subtree will be collapsed down to a single node - and this will
+ripple towards the root if possible.
+
+
+NON-RECURSIVE ITERATION
+-----------------------
+
+Each node and shortcut contains a back pointer to its parent and the number of
+slot in that parent that points to it. None-recursive iteration uses these to
+proceed rootwards through the tree, going to the parent node, slot N + 1 to
+make sure progress is made without the need for a stack.
+
+The backpointers, however, make simultaneous alteration and iteration tricky.
+
+
+SIMULTANEOUS ALTERATION AND ITERATION
+-------------------------------------
+
+There are a number of cases to consider:
+
+ (1) Simple insert/replace. This involves simply replacing a NULL or old
+ matching leaf pointer with the pointer to the new leaf after a barrier.
+ The metadata blocks don't change otherwise. An old leaf won't be freed
+ until after the RCU grace period.
+
+ (2) Simple delete. This involves just clearing an old matching leaf. The
+ metadata blocks don't change otherwise. The old leaf won't be freed until
+ after the RCU grace period.
+
+ (3) Insertion replacing part of a subtree that we haven't yet entered. This
+ may involve replacement of part of that subtree - but that won't affect
+ the iteration as we won't have reached the pointer to it yet and the
+ ancestry blocks are not replaced (the layout of those does not change).
+
+ (4) Insertion replacing nodes that we're actively processing. This isn't a
+ problem as we've passed the anchoring pointer and won't switch onto the
+ new layout until we follow the back pointers - at which point we've
+ already examined the leaves in the replaced node (we iterate over all the
+ leaves in a node before following any of its metadata pointers).
+
+ We might, however, re-see some leaves that have been split out into a new
+ branch that's in a slot further along than we were at.
+
+ (5) Insertion replacing nodes that we're processing a dependent branch of.
+ This won't affect us until we follow the back pointers. Similar to (4).
+
+ (6) Deletion collapsing a branch under us. This doesn't affect us because the
+ back pointers will get us back to the parent of the new node before we
+ could see the new node. The entire collapsed subtree is thrown away
+ unchanged - and will still be rooted on the same slot, so we shouldn't
+ process it a second time as we'll go back to slot + 1.
+
+Note:
+
+ (*) Under some circumstances, we need to simultaneously change the parent
+ pointer and the parent slot pointer on a node (say, for example, we
+ inserted another node before it and moved it up a level). We cannot do
+ this without locking against a read - so we have to replace that node too.
+
+ However, when we're changing a shortcut into a node this isn't a problem
+ as shortcuts only have one slot and so the parent slot number isn't used
+ when traversing backwards over one. This means that it's okay to change
+ the slot number first - provided suitable barriers are used to make sure
+ the parent slot number is read after the back pointer.
+
+Obsolete blocks and leaves are freed up after an RCU grace period has passed,
+so as long as anyone doing walking or iteration holds the RCU read lock, the
+old superstructure should not go away on them.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
index ad6a73852f08..f1fb26eed0e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ adi,adt7461 +/-1C TDM Extended Temp Range I.C
adt7461 +/-1C TDM Extended Temp Range I.C
at,24c08 i2c serial eeprom (24cxx)
atmel,24c02 i2c serial eeprom (24cxx)
+atmel,at97sc3204t i2c trusted platform module (TPM)
catalyst,24c32 i2c serial eeprom
dallas,ds1307 64 x 8, Serial, I2C Real-Time Clock
dallas,ds1338 I2C RTC with 56-Byte NV RAM
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ mc,rv3029c2 Real Time Clock Module with I2C-Bus
national,lm75 I2C TEMP SENSOR
national,lm80 Serial Interface ACPI-Compatible Microprocessor System Hardware Monitor
national,lm92 ±0.33°C Accurate, 12-Bit + Sign Temperature Sensor and Thermal Window Comparator with Two-Wire Interface
+nuvoton,npct501 i2c trusted platform module (TPM)
nxp,pca9556 Octal SMBus and I2C registered interface
nxp,pca9557 8-bit I2C-bus and SMBus I/O port with reset
nxp,pcf8563 Real-time clock/calendar
@@ -61,3 +63,4 @@ taos,tsl2550 Ambient Light Sensor with SMBUS/Two Wire Serial Interface
ti,tsc2003 I2C Touch-Screen Controller
ti,tmp102 Low Power Digital Temperature Sensor with SMBUS/Two Wire Serial Interface
ti,tmp275 Digital Temperature Sensor
+winbond,wpct301 i2c trusted platform module (TPM)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9ca3e74a10e1..50680a59a2ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1190,15 +1190,24 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
owned by uid=0.
ima_hash= [IMA]
- Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
+ Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
+ | sha512 | ... }
default: "sha1"
+ The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
+ in crypto/hash_info.h.
+
ima_tcb [IMA]
Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
opened for read by uid=0.
+ ima_template= [IMA]
+ Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
+ Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
+ Default: "ima-ng"
+
init= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
diff --git a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX
index 414235c1fcfc..45c82fd3e9d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/security/00-INDEX
@@ -22,3 +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 000000000000..a777e5f1df5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+ 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.
+
+
+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'.
+
+
+
+==== 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/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index 7b4145d00452..a4c33f1a7c6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -865,15 +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.
@@ -961,14 +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: