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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-07-10 19:29:21 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2022-07-11 09:59:31 +0200
commit68b8e9713c8ec90af93c16e1de51cca18cefdb56 (patch)
tree5b98e8663b01bd759acb9dea6ba888509334f8ce /security
parent5a88c48f4146de2c8c2ed7ddcaa76f898869f3a3 (diff)
x86/setup: Use rng seeds from setup_data
Currently, the only way x86 can get an early boot RNG seed is via EFI, which is generally always used now for physical machines, but is very rarely used in VMs, especially VMs that are optimized for starting "instantaneously", such as Firecracker's MicroVM. For tiny fast booting VMs, EFI is not something you generally need or want. Rather, the image loader or firmware should be able to pass a single random seed, exactly as device tree platforms do with the "rng-seed" property. Additionally, this is something that bootloaders can append, with their own seed file management, which is something every other major OS ecosystem has that Linux does not (yet). Add SETUP_RNG_SEED, similar to the other eight setup_data entries that are parsed at boot. It also takes care to zero out the seed immediately after using, in order to retain forward secrecy. This all takes about 7 trivial lines of code. Then, on kexec_file_load(), a new fresh seed is generated and passed to the next kernel, just as is done on device tree architectures when using kexec. And, importantly, I've tested that QEMU is able to properly pass SETUP_RNG_SEED as well, making this work for every step of the way. This code too is pretty straight forward. Together these measures ensure that VMs and nested kexec()'d kernels always receive a proper boot time RNG seed at the earliest possible stage from their parents: - Host [already has strongly initialized RNG] - QEMU [passes fresh seed in SETUP_RNG_SEED field] - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own] - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field] - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own] - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field] - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own] - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field] - ... I've verified in several scenarios that this works quite well from a host kernel to QEMU and down inwards, mixing and matching loaders, with every layer providing a seed to the next. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630113300.1892799-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
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