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    selinux: include a consumer of the new IMA critical data hook · fdd1ffe8
    Lakshmi Ramasubramanian authored
    SELinux stores the active policy in memory, so the changes to this data
    at runtime would have an impact on the security guarantees provided
    by SELinux.  Measuring in-memory SELinux policy through IMA subsystem
    provides a secure way for the attestation service to remotely validate
    the policy contents at runtime.
    
    Measure the hash of the loaded policy by calling the IMA hook
    ima_measure_critical_data().  Since the size of the loaded policy
    can be large (several MB), measure the hash of the policy instead of
    the entire policy to avoid bloating the IMA log entry.
    
    To enable SELinux data measurement, the following steps are required:
    
    1, Add "ima_policy=critical_data" to the kernel command line arguments
       to enable measuring SELinux data at boot time.
    For example,
      BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-rc1+ root=UUID=fd643309-a5d2-4ed3-b10d-3c579a5fab2f ro nomodeset security=selinux ima_policy=critical_data
    
    2, Add the following rule to /etc/ima/ima-policy
       measure func=CRITICAL_DATA label=selinux
    
    Sample measurement of the hash of SELinux policy:
    
    To verify the measured data with the current SELinux policy run
    the following commands and verify the output hash values match.
    
      sha256sum /sys/fs/selinux/policy | cut -d' ' -f 1
    
      grep "selinux-policy-hash" /sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f 6
    
    Note that the actual verification of SELinux policy would require loading
    the expected policy into an identical kernel on a pristine/known-safe
    system and run the sha256sum /sys/kernel/selinux/policy there to get
    the expected hash.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
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