fs-verity: support builtin file signatures

To meet some users' needs, add optional support for having fs-verity
handle a portion of the authentication policy in the kernel.  An
".fs-verity" keyring is created to which X.509 certificates can be
added; then a sysctl 'fs.verity.require_signatures' can be set to cause
the kernel to enforce that all fs-verity files contain a signature of
their file measurement by a key in this keyring.

See the "Built-in signature verification" section of
Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full documentation.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/verity/Kconfig b/fs/verity/Kconfig
index c2bca0b01ecf..88fb25119899 100644
--- a/fs/verity/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/verity/Kconfig
@@ -36,3 +36,20 @@ config FS_VERITY_DEBUG
 	  Enable debugging messages related to fs-verity by default.
 
 	  Say N unless you are an fs-verity developer.
+
+config FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES
+	bool "FS Verity builtin signature support"
+	depends on FS_VERITY
+	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
+	help
+	  Support verifying signatures of verity files against the X.509
+	  certificates that have been loaded into the ".fs-verity"
+	  kernel keyring.
+
+	  This is meant as a relatively simple mechanism that can be
+	  used to provide an authenticity guarantee for verity files, as
+	  an alternative to IMA appraisal.  Userspace programs still
+	  need to check that the verity bit is set in order to get an
+	  authenticity guarantee.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.