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authorLinus Torvalds2018-12-28 15:05:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2018-12-28 15:05:13 -0800
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "The vast bulk of this update is the new support for the security capabilities of some nvdimms. The userspace tooling for this capability is still a work in progress, but the changes survive the existing libnvdimm unit tests. The changes also pass manual checkout on hardware and the new nfit_test emulation of the security capability. The touches of the security/keys/ files have received the necessary acks from Mimi and David. Those changes were necessary to allow for a new generic encrypted-key type, and allow the nvdimm sub-system to lookup key material referenced by the libnvdimm-sysfs interface. Summary: - Add support for the security features of nvdimm devices that implement a security model similar to ATA hard drive security. The security model supports locking access to the media at device-power-loss, to be unlocked with a passphrase, and secure-erase (crypto-scramble). Unlike the ATA security case where the kernel expects device security to be managed in a pre-OS environment, the libnvdimm security implementation allows key provisioning and key-operations at OS runtime. Keys are managed with the kernel's encrypted-keys facility to provide data-at-rest security for the libnvdimm key material. The usage model mirrors fscrypt key management, but is driven via libnvdimm sysfs. - Miscellaneous updates for api usage and comment fixes" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits) libnvdimm/security: Quiet security operations libnvdimm/security: Add documentation for nvdimm security support tools/testing/nvdimm: add Intel DSM 1.8 support for nfit_test tools/testing/nvdimm: Add overwrite support for nfit_test tools/testing/nvdimm: Add test support for Intel nvdimm security DSMs acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: add Intel DSM 1.8 master passphrase support acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: Add security DSM overwrite support acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add support for issue secure erase DSM to Intel nvdimm acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add enable/update passphrase support for Intel nvdimms acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add disable passphrase support to Intel nvdimm. acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add unlock of nvdimm support for Intel DIMMs acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add freeze security support to Intel nvdimm acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Introduce nvdimm_security_ops keys-encrypted: add nvdimm key format type to encrypted keys keys: Export lookup_user_key to external users acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Store dimm id as a member to struct nvdimm libnvdimm, namespace: Replace kmemdup() with kstrndup() libnvdimm, label: Switch to bitmap_zalloc() ACPI/nfit: Adjust annotation for why return 0 if fail to find NFIT at start libnvdimm, bus: Check id immediately following ida_simple_get ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/nvdimm/security.txt141
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst6
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diff --git a/Documentation/nvdimm/security.txt b/Documentation/nvdimm/security.txt
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+NVDIMM SECURITY
+===============
+
+1. Introduction
+---------------
+
+With the introduction of Intel Device Specific Methods (DSM) v1.8
+specification [1], security DSMs are introduced. The spec added the following
+security DSMs: "get security state", "set passphrase", "disable passphrase",
+"unlock unit", "freeze lock", "secure erase", and "overwrite". A security_ops
+data structure has been added to struct dimm in order to support the security
+operations and generic APIs are exposed to allow vendor neutral operations.
+
+2. Sysfs Interface
+------------------
+The "security" sysfs attribute is provided in the nvdimm sysfs directory. For
+example:
+/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ACPI0012:00/ndbus0/nmem0/security
+
+The "show" attribute of that attribute will display the security state for
+that DIMM. The following states are available: disabled, unlocked, locked,
+frozen, and overwrite. If security is not supported, the sysfs attribute
+will not be visible.
+
+The "store" attribute takes several commands when it is being written to
+in order to support some of the security functionalities:
+update <old_keyid> <new_keyid> - enable or update passphrase.
+disable <keyid> - disable enabled security and remove key.
+freeze - freeze changing of security states.
+erase <keyid> - delete existing user encryption key.
+overwrite <keyid> - wipe the entire nvdimm.
+master_update <keyid> <new_keyid> - enable or update master passphrase.
+master_erase <keyid> - delete existing user encryption key.
+
+3. Key Management
+-----------------
+
+The key is associated to the payload by the DIMM id. For example:
+# cat /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ACPI0012:00/ndbus0/nmem0/nfit/id
+8089-a2-1740-00000133
+The DIMM id would be provided along with the key payload (passphrase) to
+the kernel.
+
+The security keys are managed on the basis of a single key per DIMM. The
+key "passphrase" is expected to be 32bytes long. This is similar to the ATA
+security specification [2]. A key is initially acquired via the request_key()
+kernel API call during nvdimm unlock. It is up to the user to make sure that
+all the keys are in the kernel user keyring for unlock.
+
+A nvdimm encrypted-key of format enc32 has the description format of:
+nvdimm:<bus-provider-specific-unique-id>
+
+See file ``Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst`` for creating
+encrypted-keys of enc32 format. TPM usage with a master trusted key is
+preferred for sealing the encrypted-keys.
+
+4. Unlocking
+------------
+When the DIMMs are being enumerated by the kernel, the kernel will attempt to
+retrieve the key from the kernel user keyring. This is the only time
+a locked DIMM can be unlocked. Once unlocked, the DIMM will remain unlocked
+until reboot. Typically an entity (i.e. shell script) will inject all the
+relevant encrypted-keys into the kernel user keyring during the initramfs phase.
+This provides the unlock function access to all the related keys that contain
+the passphrase for the respective nvdimms. It is also recommended that the
+keys are injected before libnvdimm is loaded by modprobe.
+
+5. Update
+---------
+When doing an update, it is expected that the existing key is removed from
+the kernel user keyring and reinjected as different (old) key. It's irrelevant
+what the key description is for the old key since we are only interested in the
+keyid when doing the update operation. It is also expected that the new key
+is injected with the description format described from earlier in this
+document. The update command written to the sysfs attribute will be with
+the format:
+update <old keyid> <new keyid>
+
+If there is no old keyid due to a security enabling, then a 0 should be
+passed in.
+
+6. Freeze
+---------
+The freeze operation does not require any keys. The security config can be
+frozen by a user with root privelege.
+
+7. Disable
+----------
+The security disable command format is:
+disable <keyid>
+
+An key with the current passphrase payload that is tied to the nvdimm should be
+in the kernel user keyring.
+
+8. Secure Erase
+---------------
+The command format for doing a secure erase is:
+erase <keyid>
+
+An key with the current passphrase payload that is tied to the nvdimm should be
+in the kernel user keyring.
+
+9. Overwrite
+------------
+The command format for doing an overwrite is:
+overwrite <keyid>
+
+Overwrite can be done without a key if security is not enabled. A key serial
+of 0 can be passed in to indicate no key.
+
+The sysfs attribute "security" can be polled to wait on overwrite completion.
+Overwrite can last tens of minutes or more depending on nvdimm size.
+
+An encrypted-key with the current user passphrase that is tied to the nvdimm
+should be injected and its keyid should be passed in via sysfs.
+
+10. Master Update
+-----------------
+The command format for doing a master update is:
+update <old keyid> <new keyid>
+
+The operating mechanism for master update is identical to update except the
+master passphrase key is passed to the kernel. The master passphrase key
+is just another encrypted-key.
+
+This command is only available when security is disabled.
+
+11. Master Erase
+----------------
+The command format for doing a master erase is:
+master_erase <current keyid>
+
+This command has the same operating mechanism as erase except the master
+passphrase key is passed to the kernel. The master passphrase key is just
+another encrypted-key.
+
+This command is only available when the master security is enabled, indicated
+by the extended security status.
+
+[1]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface-V1.8.pdf
+[2]: http://www.t13.org/documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2006/e05179r4-ACS-SecurityClarifications.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
index 3bb24e09a332..e8a1c35cd277 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Usage::
Where::
- format:= 'default | ecryptfs'
+ format:= 'default | ecryptfs | enc32'
key-type:= 'trusted' | 'user'
@@ -173,3 +173,7 @@ are anticipated. In particular the new format 'ecryptfs' has been defined in
in order to use encrypted keys to mount an eCryptfs filesystem. More details
about the usage can be found in the file
``Documentation/security/keys/ecryptfs.rst``.
+
+Another new format 'enc32' has been defined in order to support encrypted keys
+with payload size of 32 bytes. This will initially be used for nvdimm security
+but may expand to other usages that require 32 bytes payload.