This README file contains information on the contents of the integrity layer.
The bbappend files for some recipes (e.g. linux-yocto) in this layer need to have 'integrity' in DISTRO_FEATURES to have effect. To enable them, add in configuration file the following line.
DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " integrity"
If meta-integrity is included, but integrity is not enabled as a distro feature a warning is printed at parse time:
You have included the meta-integritry layer, but 'integrity' has not been enabled in your DISTRO_FEATURES. Some bbappend files and preferred version setting may not take effect.
If you know what you are doing, this warning can be disabled by setting the following variable in your configuration:
SKIP_META_INTEGRITY_SANITY_CHECK = 1
This layer depends on:
URI: git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake branch: master URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core layers: meta branch: master URI: git://github.com/01org/meta-security/meta-integrate layers: security-framework branch: master
For discussion or patch submission via email, use the yocto@yoctoproject.org mailing list. When submitting patches that way, make sure to copy the maintainer and add a "[meta-integrity]" prefix to the subject of the mails.
Maintainer: Armin Kuster akuster808@gmail.com
Adding the integrity layer to your build
Usage
Known Issues
Adding the integrity layer to your build ===========================================
In order to use this layer, you need to make the build system aware of it.
Assuming the security repository exists at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can add it to the build system by adding the location of the integrity layer to bblayers.conf, along with any other layers needed. e.g.:
BBLAYERS ?= " \ /path/to/yocto/meta \ /path/to/yocto/meta-yocto \ /path/to/yocto/meta-yocto-bsp \ /path/to/yocto/meta-security/meta-integrity \ "
It has some dependencies on a suitable BSP; in particular the kernel must have a recent enough IMA/EVM subsystem. The layer was tested with Linux 6.1 and uses some features (like loading X509 certificates directly from the kernel) which were added in that release. Your mileage may vary with older kernels.
The necessary kernel configuration parameters are added to all kernel versions by this layer. Watch out for QA warnings about unused kernel configuration parameters: those indicate that the kernel used by the BSP does not have the necessary IMA/EVM features.
Adding the layer only enables IMA (see below regarding EVM) during compilation of the Linux kernel. To also activate it when building the image, enable image signing in the local.conf like this:
DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " integrity ima"
IMAGE_CLASSES += "ima-evm-rootfs"
IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR = "${INTEGRITY_BASE}/data/debug-keys"
IMA_EVM_PRIVKEY = "${IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR}/privkey_ima.pem"
IMA_EVM_X509 = "${IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR}/x509_ima.der"
IMA_EVM_ROOT_CA = "${IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR}/ima-local-ca.pem"
# The following policy enforces IMA & EVM signatures
IMA_EVM_POLICY = "${INTEGRITY_BASE}/recipes-security/ima_policy_appraise_all/files/ima_policy_appraise_all"
This uses the default keys provided in the "data" directory of the layer. Because everyone has access to these private keys, such an image should never be used in production!
For that, create your own keys first. All tools and scripts required for that are included in the layer. This is also how the debug-keys were generated:
# Choose a directory for storing keys. Preserve this # across builds and keep its private keys secret! export IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR=/tmp/imaevm mkdir -p $IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR # Build the required tools. bitbake openssl-native # Set up shell for use of the tools. bitbake -c devshell openssl-native cd $IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR # In that shell, create the keys. Several options exist: # 1. Keys signed by a new CA. # When asked for a PEM passphrase, that will be for the root CA. # Signing images then will not require entering that passphrase, # only creating new certificates does. Most likely the default # attributes for these certificates need to be adapted; modify # the scripts as needed. # $INTEGRITY_BASE/scripts/ima-gen-local-ca.sh # $INTEGRITY_BASE/scripts/ima-gen-CA-signed.sh # 2. Keys signed by an existing CA. # $INTEGRITY_BASE/scripts/ima-gen-CA-signed.sh <CA.pem> <CA.priv> exit
The ima-gen-local-ca.sh and ima-gen.sh scripts create a root CA and sign the signing keys with it. The ima-evm-rootfs.bbclass then supports adding tha CA's public key to the kernel's system keyring by compiling it directly into the kernel. Because it is unknown whether that is necessary (for example, the CA might also get added to the system key ring via UEFI Secure Boot), one has to enable compilation into the kernel explicitly in a local.conf with:
IMA_EVM_ROOT_CA = "<path to .x509 file, for example the ima-local-ca.x509 created by ima-gen-local-ca.sh>"
To use the personal keys, override the default IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR in your local.conf and/or override the individual variables from ima-evm-rootfs.bbclass:
IMA_EVM_KEY_DIR = "<full path>" IMA_EVM_PRIVKEY = "<some other path/privkey_ima.pem>"
By default, the entire file system gets signed. When using a policy which does not require that, the set of files to be labelled can be chosen by overriding the default "find" expression, for example like this:
IMA_EVM_ROOTFS_FILES = "usr sbin bin lib -type f"
After creating an image with IMA/EVM enabled, one needs to enable the built-in policies before IMA/EVM is active at runtime. To do this, add one or both of these boot parameters:
ima_tcb # measures all files read as root and all files executed
ima_appraise_tcb # appraises all files owned by root, beware of
# the known issue mentioned below
Instead of booting with default policies, one can also activate custom policies in different ways. First, boot without any IMA policy and then cat a policy file into /sys/kernel/security/ima/policy. This can only be done once after booting and is useful for debugging.
In production, the long term goal is to load a verified policy directly from the kernel, using a patch which still needs to be included upstream ("ima: load policy from the kernel", https://lwn.net/Articles/595759/).
Loading via systemd also works with systemd, but is considered less secure (policy file is not checked before activating it). Beware that IMA policy loading became broken in systemd 2.18. The modified systemd 2.19 in meta-security-smack has a patch reverting the broken changes. To activate policy loading via systemd, place a policy file in /etc/ima/ima-policy, for example with:
IMA_EVM_POLICY = "${INTEGRITY_BASE}/data/ima_policy_simple"
To check that measuring works, look at /sys/kernel/security/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
To check that appraisal works, try modifying executables and ensure that executing them fails:
echo "foobar" >>/usr/bin/rpm evmctl ima_verify /usr/bin/rpm rpm --version
Depending on the current appraisal policy, the echo command may already fail because writing is not allowed. If the file was modified and the current appraisal policy allows reading, then evmctl will report (the errno value seems to be printed always and is unrelated to the actual verification failure here):
Verification failed: 35 errno: No such file or directory (2)
After enabling a suitable IMA appraisal policy, reading and/or executing the file is no longer allowed:
# evmctl ima_verify /usr/bin/rpm Failed to open: /usr/bin/rpm errno: Permission denied (13) # rpm --version -sh: /usr/bin/rpm: Permission denied
Enabling the audit kernel subsystem may help to debug appraisal issues. Enable it by adding the meta-security-framework layer and changing your local.conf: SRC_URI:append:pn-linux-yocto = " file://audit.cfg" CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "auditd"
Then boot with "ima_appraise=log ima_appraise_tcb".
Adding auditd is not strictly necessary but helps to capture a more complete set of events in /var/log/audit/ and search in them with ausearch.
EVM is not enabled, for multiple reasons:
IMA appraisal with "ima_appraise_tcb" enables rules which are too strict for most distros. For example, systemd needs to write certain files as root, which is prevented by the ima_appraise_tcb appraise rules. As a result, the system fails to boot:
[FAILED] Failed to start Commit a transient machine-id on disk. See "systemctl status systemd-machine-id-commit.service" for details. ... [FAILED] Failed to start Network Service. See "systemctl status systemd-networkd.service" for details. [FAILED] Failed to start Login Service. See "systemctl status systemd-logind.service" for details.
No package manager is integrated with IMA/EVM. When updating packages, files will end up getting installed without correct IMA/EVM attributes and thus will not be usable when appraisal is turned on.
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.tizen.devel/6281 [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.tizen.devel/6275