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>
The "ahash" API, like the other scatterlist-based crypto APIs such as
"skcipher", comes with some well-known limitations. First, it can't
easily be used with vmalloc addresses. Second, the request struct can't
be allocated on the stack. This adds complexity and a possible failure
point that needs to be worked around, e.g. using a mempool.
The only benefit of ahash over "shash" is that ahash is needed to access
traditional memory-to-memory crypto accelerators, i.e. drivers/crypto/.
However, this style of crypto acceleration has largely fallen out of
favor and been superseded by CPU-based acceleration or inline crypto
engines. Also, ahash needs to be used asynchronously to take full
advantage of such hardware, but fs/verity/ has never done this.
On all systems that aren't actually using one of these ahash-only crypto
accelerators, ahash just adds unnecessary overhead as it sits between
the user and the underlying shash algorithms.
Also, XFS is planned to cache fsverity Merkle tree blocks in the
existing XFS buffer cache. As a result, it will be possible for a
single Merkle tree block to be split across discontiguous pages
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405233753.GU3223426@dread.disaster.area).
This data will need to be hashed. It is easiest to work with a vmapped
address in this case. However, ahash is incompatible with this.
Therefore, let's convert fs/verity/ from ahash to shash. This
simplifies the code, and it should also slightly improve performance for
everyone who wasn't actually using one of these ahash-only crypto
accelerators, i.e. almost everyone (or maybe even everyone)!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516052306.99600-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Commit 56124d6c87 ("fsverity: support enabling with tree block size <
PAGE_SIZE") changed FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY to use __kernel_read() to read
the file's data, instead of direct pagecache accesses.
An unintended consequence of this is that the
'WARN_ON_ONCE(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ))' in __kernel_read() became
reachable by fuzz tests. This happens if FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY is called
on a fd opened with access mode 3, which means "ioctl access only".
Arguably, FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY should work on ioctl-only fds. But
ioctl-only fds are a weird Linux extension that is rarely used and that
few people even know about. (The documentation for FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
even specifically says it requires O_RDONLY.) It's probably not
worthwhile to make the ioctl internally open a new fd just to handle
this case. Thus, just reject the ioctl on such fds for now.
Fixes: 56124d6c87 ("fsverity: support enabling with tree block size < PAGE_SIZE")
Reported-by: syzbot+51177e4144d764827c45@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=2281afcbbfa8fdb92f9887479cc0e4180f1c6b28
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230406215106.235829-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
The new Merkle tree construction algorithm is a bit fragile in that it
may overflow the 'root_hash' array if the tree actually generated does
not match the calculated tree parameters.
This should never happen unless there is a filesystem bug that allows
the file size to change despite deny_write_access(), or a bug in the
Merkle tree logic itself. Regardless, it's fairly easy to check for
buffer overflow here, so let's do so.
This is a robustness improvement only; this case is not currently known
to be reachable. I've added a Fixes tag anyway, since I recommend that
this be included in kernels that have the mentioned commit.
Fixes: 56124d6c87 ("fsverity: support enabling with tree block size < PAGE_SIZE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328041505.110162-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
The full pagecache drop at the end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY is causing
performance problems and is hindering adoption of fsverity. It was
intended to solve a race condition where unverified pages might be left
in the pagecache. But actually it doesn't solve it fully.
Since the incomplete solution for this race condition has too much
performance impact for it to be worth it, let's remove it for now.
Fixes: 3fda4c617e ("fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314235332.50270-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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
In preparation for allowing the Merkle tree block size to differ from
PAGE_SIZE, replace fsverity_hash_page() with fsverity_hash_block(). The
new function is similar to the old one, but it operates on the block at
the given offset in the page instead of on the full page.
(For now, all callers still pass a full page.)
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/20221223203638.41293-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
I've gotten very little use out of these debug messages, and I'm not
aware of anyone else having used them.
Indeed, sprinkling pr_debug around is not really a best practice these
days, especially for filesystem code. Tracepoints are used instead.
Let's just remove these and start from a clean slate.
This change does not affect info, warning, and error messages.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221215060420.60692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
fsverity_operations::write_merkle_tree_block is passed the index of the
block to write and the log base 2 of the block size. However, all
implementations of it use these parameters only to calculate the
position and the size of the block, in bytes.
Therefore, make ->write_merkle_tree_block take 'pos' and 'size'
parameters instead of 'index' and 'log_blocksize'.
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221214224304.145712-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
- 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
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Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
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
...
The parameter desc_size in fsverity_create_info() is useless and it is
not referenced anywhere. The greatest meaning of desc_size here is to
indecate the size of struct fsverity_descriptor and futher calculate the
size of signature. However, the desc->sig_size can do it also and it is
indeed, so remove it.
Therefore, it is no need to acquire desc_size by fsverity_get_descriptor()
in ensure_verity_info(), so remove the parameter desc_ret in
fsverity_get_descriptor() too.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jianhua <chris.zjh@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518132256.2297655-1-chris.zjh@huawei.com
Removes a couple of calls to compound_head and saves a few bytes.
Also convert verity's read_file_data_page() to be folio-based.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
If the file size is almost S64_MAX, the calculated number of Merkle tree
levels exceeds FS_VERITY_MAX_LEVELS, causing FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY to
fail. This is unintentional, since as the comment above the definition
of FS_VERITY_MAX_LEVELS states, it is enough for over U64_MAX bytes of
data using SHA-256 and 4K blocks. (Specifically, 4096*128**8 >= 2**64.)
The bug is actually that when the number of blocks in the first level is
calculated from i_size, there is a signed integer overflow due to i_size
being signed. Fix this by treating i_size as unsigned.
This was found by the new test "generic: test fs-verity EFBIG scenarios"
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1d116cd4d0ea74b9cd86f349c672021e005a75c.1631558495.git.boris@bur.io).
This didn't affect ext4 or f2fs since those have a smaller maximum file
size, but it did affect btrfs which allows files up to S64_MAX bytes.
Reported-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Fixes: 3fda4c617e ("fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl")
Fixes: fd2d1acfca ("fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.4+
Reviewed-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210916203424.113376-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path
respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few
codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit.
Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g.
ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more
complex argument passing than necessary.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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>
Embedding the file path inside kernel source code files isn't
particularly useful as often files are moved around and the paths become
incorrect. checkpatch.pl warns about this since v5.10-rc1.
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113211918.71883-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Fix all kerneldoc warnings in fs/verity/ and include/linux/fsverity.h.
Most of these were due to missing documentation for function parameters.
Detected with:
scripts/kernel-doc -v -none fs/verity/*.{c,h} include/linux/fsverity.h
This cleanup makes it possible to check new patches for kerneldoc
warnings without having to filter out all the existing ones.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511192118.71427-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
When initializing an fs-verity hash algorithm, also initialize a mempool
that contains a single preallocated hash request object. Then replace
the direct calls to ahash_request_alloc() and ahash_request_free() with
allocating and freeing from this mempool.
This eliminates the possibility of the allocation failing, which is
desirable for the I/O path.
This doesn't cause deadlocks because there's no case where multiple hash
requests are needed at a time to make forward progress.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231175545.20709-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
When fs-verity verifies data pages, currently it reads each Merkle tree
page synchronously using read_mapping_page().
Therefore, when the Merkle tree pages aren't already cached, fs-verity
causes an extra 4 KiB I/O request for every 512 KiB of data (assuming
that the Merkle tree uses SHA-256 and 4 KiB blocks). This results in
more I/O requests and performance loss than is strictly necessary.
Therefore, implement readahead of the Merkle tree pages.
For simplicity, we take advantage of the fact that the kernel already
does readahead of the file's *data*, just like it does for any other
file. Due to this, we don't really need a separate readahead state
(struct file_ra_state) just for the Merkle tree, but rather we just need
to piggy-back on the existing data readahead requests.
We also only really need to bother with the first level of the Merkle
tree, since the usual fan-out factor is 128, so normally over 99% of
Merkle tree I/O requests are for the first level.
Therefore, make fsverity_verify_bio() enable readahead of the first
Merkle tree level, for up to 1/4 the number of pages in the bio, when it
sees that the REQ_RAHEAD flag is set on the bio. The readahead size is
then passed down to ->read_merkle_tree_page() for the filesystem to
(optionally) implement if it sees that the requested page is uncached.
While we're at it, also make build_merkle_tree_level() set the Merkle
tree readahead size, since it's easy to do there.
However, for now don't set the readahead size in fsverity_verify_page(),
since currently it's only used to verify holes on ext4 and f2fs, and it
would need parameters added to know how much to read ahead.
This patch significantly improves fs-verity sequential read performance.
Some quick benchmarks with 'cat'-ing a 250MB file after dropping caches:
On an ARM64 phone (using sha256-ce):
Before: 217 MB/s
After: 263 MB/s
(compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 357 MB/s)
In an x86_64 VM (using sha256-avx2):
Before: 173 MB/s
After: 215 MB/s
(compare to sha256sum of non-verity file: 223 MB/s)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106205533.137005-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
When it builds the first level of the Merkle tree, FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
sequentially reads each page of the file using read_mapping_page().
This works fine if the file's data is already in pagecache, which should
normally be the case, since this ioctl is normally used immediately
after writing out the file.
But in any other case this implementation performs very poorly, since
only one page is read at a time.
Fix this by implementing readahead using the functions from
mm/readahead.c.
This improves performance in the uncached case by about 20x, as seen in
the following benchmarks done on a 250MB file (on x86_64 with SHA-NI):
FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY uncached (before) 3.299s
FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY uncached (after) 0.160s
FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY cached 0.147s
sha256sum uncached 0.191s
sha256sum cached 0.145s
Note: we could instead switch to kernel_read(). But that would mean
we'd no longer be hashing the data directly from the pagecache, which is
a nice optimization of its own. And using kernel_read() would require
allocating another temporary buffer, hashing the data and tree pages
separately, and explicitly zero-padding the last page -- so it wouldn't
really be any simpler than direct pagecache access, at least for now.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106205410.136707-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Replace all the occurrences of FIELD_SIZEOF() with sizeof_field() except
at places where these are defined. Later patches will remove the unused
definition of FIELD_SIZEOF().
This patch is generated using following script:
EXCLUDE_FILES="include/linux/stddef.h|include/linux/kernel.h"
git grep -l -e "\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b" | while read file;
do
if [[ "$file" =~ $EXCLUDE_FILES ]]; then
continue
fi
sed -i -e 's/\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b/sizeof_field/g' $file;
done
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190924105839.110713-3-pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> # for net
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>
Add a function for filesystems to call to implement the
FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl. This ioctl enables fs-verity on a file.
See the "FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY" section of
Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the documentation.
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
