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2021-02-07fs-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>
2021-02-07fs-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>
2021-02-07fs-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>
2021-02-07fs-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>
2020-11-23fs-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>
2019-07-28fs-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>