ACK: [PATCH 0/8][j/k/l/m linux][j/k/l/m linux-kvm] CONFIG_DM_VERITY=m
Andrei Gherzan
andrei.gherzan at canonical.com
Mon May 15 15:32:41 UTC 2023
On 23/05/11 12:50PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019040
>
> SRU Justification
>
> [Impact]
>
> The kvm flavours currently do not enable dm-verity. This stops us from using
> integrity protected and verified images in VMs using this kernel flavour.
>
> All of the master kernels should also have CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING enabled. These
> config changes should bubble down into the cloud derivative kernels.
>
> [Fix]
>
> Please consider enabling the following kconfigs:
>
> CONFIG_DM_VERITY
> CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG
> CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG_SECONDARY_KEYRING
>
> (The latter is needed to ensure that MoK keys can be used to verify dm-verity images
> too, via the machine keyring linked to the secondary keyring)
>
> These are already enabled in the 'main' kernel config, and in other distros.
>
> As a specific and explicit use case, in the systemd project we want to test
> functionality provided by systemd that needs these kconfigs on Ubuntu machines running
> the kvm flavour kernel.
>
> Note that I explicitly did not enable CONFIG_IMA as requested in the bug report since
> it has performance impacts.
>
> [Regression Potential]
>
> MOK keys may not be correctly read.
>
>
>
>
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Acked-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei.gherzan at canonical.com>
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Andrei Gherzan
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