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2023-08-12ovl: Add framework for verity supportAlexander Larsson1-0/+2
This adds the scaffolding (docs, config, mount options) for supporting the new digest field in the metacopy xattr. This contains a fs-verity digest that need to match the fs-verity digest of the lowerdata file. The mount option "verity" specifies how this xattr is handled. If you enable verity ("verity=on") all existing xattrs are validated before use, and during metacopy we generate verity xattr in the upper metacopy file (if the source file has verity enabled). This means later accesses can guarantee that the same data is used. Additionally you can use "verity=require". In this mode all metacopy files must have a valid verity xattr. For this to work metadata copy-up must be able to create a verity xattr (so that later accesses are validated). Therefore, in this mode, if the lower data file doesn't have fs-verity enabled we fall back to a full copy rather than a metacopy. Actual implementation follows in a separate commit. Signed-off-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2023-06-21fsverity: improve documentation for builtin signature supportEric Biggers1-66/+126
fsverity builtin signatures (CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES) aren't the only way to do signatures with fsverity, and they have some major limitations. Yet, more users have tried to use them, e.g. recently by https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/2640. In most cases this seems to be because users aren't sufficiently familiar with the limitations of this feature and what the alternatives are. Therefore, make some updates to the documentation to try to clarify the properties of this feature and nudge users in the right direction. Note that the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) LSM, which is not yet upstream, is planned to use the builtin signatures. (This differs from IMA, which uses its own signature mechanism.) For that reason, my earlier patch "fsverity: mark builtin signatures as deprecated" (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221208033548.122704-1-ebiggers@kernel.org), which marked builtin signatures as "deprecated", was controversial. This patch therefore stops short of marking the feature as deprecated. I've also revised the language to focus on better explaining the feature and what its alternatives are. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620041937.5809-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Reviewed-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2023-01-28fsverity: support verifying data from large foliosEric Biggers1-10/+10
Try to make fs/verity/verify.c aware of large folios. This includes making fsverity_verify_bio() support the case where the bio contains large folios, and adding a function fsverity_verify_folio() which is the equivalent of fsverity_verify_page(). There's no way to actually test this with large folios yet, but I've tested that this doesn't cause any regressions. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230127221529.299560-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
2023-01-25fsverity.rst: update git repo URL for fsverity-utilsEric Biggers1-1/+1
The fsverity-utils git repo is moving out of my personal directory; see the announcement at https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9GKm+hcm70myZkr@sol.localdomain. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125203025.28187-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
2023-01-10ext4: allow verity with fs block size < PAGE_SIZEEric Biggers1-3/+5
Now that the needed changes have been made to fs/buffer.c, ext4 is ready to support the verity feature when the filesystem block size is less than the page size. So remove the mount-time check that prevented this. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223203638.41293-12-ebiggers@kernel.org
2023-01-10fsverity: support enabling with tree block size < PAGE_SIZEEric Biggers1-11/+9
Make FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY support values of fsverity_enable_arg::block_size other than PAGE_SIZE. To make this possible, rework build_merkle_tree(), which was reading data and hash pages from the file and assuming that they were the same thing as "blocks". For reading the data blocks, just replace the direct pagecache access with __kernel_read(), to naturally read one block at a time. (A disadvantage of the above is that we lose the two optimizations of hashing the pagecache pages in-place and forcing the maximum readahead. That shouldn't be very important, though.) The hash block reads are a bit more difficult to handle, as the only way to do them is through fsverity_operations::read_merkle_tree_page(). Instead, let's switch to the single-pass tree construction algorithm that fsverity-utils uses. This eliminates the need to read back any hash blocks while the tree is being built, at the small cost of an extra block-sized memory buffer per Merkle tree level. This is probably what I should have done originally. Taken together, the above two changes result in page-size independent code that is also a bit simpler than what we had before. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223203638.41293-8-ebiggers@kernel.org
2023-01-10fsverity: support verification with tree block size < PAGE_SIZEEric Biggers1-26/+23
Add support for verifying data from verity files whose Merkle tree block size is less than the page size. The main use case for this is to allow a single Merkle tree block size to be used across all systems, so that only one set of fsverity file digests and signatures is needed. To do this, eliminate various assumptions that the Merkle tree block size and the page size are the same: - Make fsverity_verify_page() a wrapper around a new function fsverity_verify_blocks() which verifies one or more blocks in a page. - When a Merkle tree block is needed, get the corresponding page and only verify and use the needed portion. (The Merkle tree continues to be read and cached in page-sized chunks; that doesn't need to change.) - When the Merkle tree block size and page size differ, use a bitmap fsverity_info::hash_block_verified to keep track of which Merkle tree blocks have been verified, as PageChecked cannot be used directly. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223203638.41293-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
2023-01-10fsverity: use EFBIG for file too large to enable verityEric Biggers1-0/+1
Currently, there is an implementation limit where files can't have more than 8 Merkle tree levels. With SHA-256 and 4K blocks, this limit is never reached, since a file would need to be larger than 2**64 bytes to need 9 levels. However, with SHA-512, 9 levels are needed for files larger than about 1.15 EB, which is possible on btrfs. Therefore, this limit technically became reachable when btrfs added fsverity support. Meanwhile, support for merkle_tree_block_size < PAGE_SIZE will introduce another implementation limit on file size, resulting from the use of an in-memory bitmap to track which Merkle tree blocks have been verified. In any case, currently FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY fails with EINVAL when the file is too large. This is undocumented, and also ambiguous since EINVAL can mean other things too. Let's change the error code to EFBIG, which is much clearer, and document it. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223203638.41293-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
2022-07-16fs-verity: mention btrfs supportEric Biggers1-23/+30
btrfs supports fs-verity since Linux v5.15. Document this. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610000616.18225-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
2022-05-25Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecacheLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull page cache updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Appoint myself page cache maintainer - Fix how scsicam uses the page cache - Use the memalloc_nofs_save() API to replace AOP_FLAG_NOFS - Remove the AOP flags entirely - Remove pagecache_write_begin() and pagecache_write_end() - Documentation updates - Convert several address_space operations to use folios: - is_dirty_writeback - readpage becomes read_folio - releasepage becomes release_folio - freepage becomes free_folio - Change filler_t to require a struct file pointer be the first argument like ->read_folio * tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (107 commits) nilfs2: Fix some kernel-doc comments Appoint myself page cache maintainer fs: Remove aops->freepage secretmem: Convert to free_folio nfs: Convert to free_folio orangefs: Convert to free_folio fs: Add free_folio address space operation fs: Convert drop_buffers() to use a folio fs: Change try_to_free_buffers() to take a folio jbd2: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio jbd2: Convert jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers to take a folio reiserfs: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio fs: Remove last vestiges of releasepage ubifs: Convert to release_folio reiserfs: Convert to release_folio orangefs: Convert to release_folio ocfs2: Convert to release_folio nilfs2: Remove comment about releasepage nfs: Convert to release_folio jfs: Convert to release_folio ...
2022-05-13fsverity: update the documentationMimi Zohar1-12/+23
Update the fsverity documentation related to IMA signature support. Acked-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2022-05-09fs: Add read_folio documentationMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-1/+1
Convert all the ->readpage documentation to ->read_folio. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-04-01fs: Remove ->readpages address space operationMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-3/+3
All filesystems have now been converted to use ->readahead, so remove the ->readpages operation and fix all the comments that used to refer to it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2021-02-08fs-verity: support reading signature with ioctlEric Biggers1-1/+8
Add support for FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_SIGNATURE to FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA. This allows a userspace server program to retrieve the built-in signature (if present) of a verity file for serving to a client which implements fs-verity compatible verification. See the patch which introduced FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA for more details. The ability for userspace to read the built-in signatures is also useful because it allows a system that is using the in-kernel signature verification to migrate to userspace signature verification. This has been tested using a new xfstest which calls this ioctl via a new subcommand for the 'fsverity' program from fsverity-utils. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115181819.34732-7-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2021-02-08fs-verity: support reading descriptor with ioctlEric Biggers1-0/+4
Add support for FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR to FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA. This allows a userspace server program to retrieve the fs-verity descriptor of a file for serving to a client which implements fs-verity compatible verification. See the patch which introduced FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA for more details. "fs-verity descriptor" here means only the part that userspace cares about because it is hashed to produce the file digest. It doesn't include the signature which ext4 and f2fs append to the fsverity_descriptor struct when storing it on-disk, since that way of storing the signature is an implementation detail. The next patch adds a separate metadata_type value for retrieving the signature separately. This has been tested using a new xfstest which calls this ioctl via a new subcommand for the 'fsverity' program from fsverity-utils. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115181819.34732-6-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2021-02-08fs-verity: support reading Merkle tree with ioctlEric Biggers1-1/+9
Add support for FS_VERITY_METADATA_TYPE_MERKLE_TREE to FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA. This allows a userspace server program to retrieve the Merkle tree of a verity file for serving to a client which implements fs-verity compatible verification. See the patch which introduced FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA for more details. This has been tested using a new xfstest which calls this ioctl via a new subcommand for the 'fsverity' program from fsverity-utils. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115181819.34732-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2021-02-08fs-verity: add FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA ioctlEric Biggers1-0/+57
Add an ioctl FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA which will allow reading verity metadata from a file that has fs-verity enabled, including: - The Merkle tree - The fsverity_descriptor (not including the signature if present) - The built-in signature, if present This ioctl has similar semantics to pread(). It is passed the type of metadata to read (one of the above three), and a buffer, offset, and size. It returns the number of bytes read or an error. Separate patches will add support for each of the above metadata types. This patch just adds the ioctl itself. This ioctl doesn't make any assumption about where the metadata is stored on-disk. It does assume the metadata is in a stable format, but that's basically already the case: - The Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor are defined by how fs-verity file digests are computed; see the "File digest computation" section of Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst. Technically, the way in which the levels of the tree are ordered relative to each other wasn't previously specified, but it's logical to put the root level first. - The built-in signature is the value passed to FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY. This ioctl is useful because it allows writing a server program that takes a verity file and serves it to a client program, such that the client can do its own fs-verity compatible verification of the file. This only makes sense if the client doesn't trust the server and if the server needs to provide the storage for the client. More concretely, there is interest in using this ability in Android to export APK files (which are protected by fs-verity) to "protected VMs". This would use Protected KVM (https://lwn.net/Articles/836693), which provides an isolated execution environment without having to trust the traditional "host". A "guest" VM can boot from a signed image and perform specific tasks in a minimum trusted environment using files that have fs-verity enabled on the host, without trusting the host or requiring that the guest has its own trusted storage. Technically, it would be possible to duplicate the metadata and store it in separate files for serving. However, that would be less efficient and would require extra care in userspace to maintain file consistency. In addition to the above, the ability to read the built-in signatures is useful because it allows a system that is using the in-kernel signature verification to migrate to userspace signature verification. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115181819.34732-4-ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-11-24fs-verity: move structs needed for file signing to UAPI headerEric Biggers1-5/+1
Although it isn't used directly by the ioctls, "struct fsverity_descriptor" is required by userspace programs that need to compute fs-verity file digests in a standalone way. Therefore it's also needed to sign files in a standalone way. Similarly, "struct fsverity_formatted_digest" (previously called "struct fsverity_signed_digest" which was misleading) is also needed to sign files if the built-in signature verification is being used. Therefore, move these structs to the UAPI header. While doing this, try to make it clear that the signature-related fields in fsverity_descriptor aren't used in the file digest computation. Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113211918.71883-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-11-16fs-verity: rename "file measurement" to "file digest"Eric Biggers1-30/+30
I originally chose the name "file measurement" to refer to the fs-verity file digest to avoid confusion with traditional full-file digests or with the bare root hash of the Merkle tree. But the name "file measurement" hasn't caught on, and usually people are calling it something else, usually the "file digest". E.g. see "struct fsverity_digest" and "struct fsverity_formatted_digest", the libfsverity_compute_digest() and libfsverity_sign_digest() functions in libfsverity, and the "fsverity digest" command. Having multiple names for the same thing is always confusing. So to hopefully avoid confusion in the future, rename "fs-verity file measurement" to "fs-verity file digest". This leaves FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY as the only reference to "measure" in the kernel, which makes some amount of sense since the ioctl is actively "measuring" the file. I'll be renaming this in fsverity-utils too (though similarly the 'fsverity measure' command, which is a wrapper for FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY, will stay). Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113211918.71883-4-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-11-16fs-verity: rename fsverity_signed_digest to fsverity_formatted_digestEric Biggers1-1/+1
The name "struct fsverity_signed_digest" is causing confusion because it isn't actually a signed digest, but rather it's the way that the digest is formatted in order to be signed. Rename it to "struct fsverity_formatted_digest" to prevent this confusion. Also update the struct's comment to clarify that it's specific to the built-in signature verification support and isn't a requirement for all fs-verity users. I'll be renaming this struct in fsverity-utils too. Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113211918.71883-3-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2020-10-15docs: get rid of :c:type explicit declarations for structsMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
The :c:type:`foo` only works properly with structs before Sphinx 3.x. On Sphinx 3.x, structs should now be declared using the .. c:struct, and referenced via :c:struct tag. As we now have the automarkup.py macro, that automatically convert: struct foo into cross-references, let's get rid of that, solving several warnings when building docs with Sphinx 3.x. Reviewed-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> # blk-mq.rst Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> # sound Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-07-05Documentation: filesystems: fsverity: drop doubled wordRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Drop the doubled word "the". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703214325.31036-6-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-13docs: fs-verity: mention statx() supportEric Biggers1-0/+8
Document that the statx() system call can now be used to check whether a file is a verity file. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-11-13docs: fs-verity: document first supported kernel versionEric Biggers1-2/+2
I had meant to replace these TODOs with the actual version when applying the patches, but forgot to do so. Do it now. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-07-29fs-verity: add a documentation fileEric Biggers1-0/+726
Add a documentation file for fs-verity, covering: - Introduction - Use cases - User API - FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY - FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY - FS_IOC_GETFLAGS - Accessing verity files - File measurement computation - Merkle tree - fs-verity descriptor - Built-in signature verification - Filesystem support - ext4 - f2fs - Implementation details - Verifying data - Pagecache - Block device based filesystems - Userspace utility - Tests - FAQ Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>