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Steven Chen 591683d394 ima: measure kexec load and exec events as critical data
The amount of memory allocated at kexec load, even with the extra memory
allocated, might not be large enough for the entire measurement list.  The
indeterminate interval between kexec 'load' and 'execute' could exacerbate
this problem.

Define two new IMA events, 'kexec_load' and 'kexec_execute', to be
measured as critical data at kexec 'load' and 'execute' respectively.
Report the allocated kexec segment size, IMA binary log size and the
runtime measurements count as part of those events.

These events, and the values reported through them, serve as markers in
the IMA log to verify the IMA events are captured during kexec soft
reboot.  The presence of a 'kexec_load' event in between the last two
'boot_aggregate' events in the IMA log implies this is a kexec soft
reboot, and not a cold-boot. And the absence of 'kexec_execute' event
after kexec soft reboot implies missing events in that window which
results in inconsistency with TPM PCR quotes, necessitating a cold boot
for a successful remote attestation.

These critical data events are displayed as hex encoded ascii in the
ascii_runtime_measurement_list.  Verifying the critical data hash requires
calculating the hash of the decoded ascii string.

For example, to verify the 'kexec_load' data hash:

sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
| grep  kexec_load | cut -d' ' -f 6 | xxd -r -p | sha256sum

To verify the 'kexec_execute' data hash:

sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
| grep kexec_execute | cut -d' ' -f 6 | xxd -r -p | sha256sum

Co-developed-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> # ppc64/kvm
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.