The PLPKS enabled PowerVM LPAR sysfs exposes all of the secure boot
secvars irrespective of the key management mode.
The PowerVM LPAR supports static and dynamic key management for secure
boot. The key management option can be updated in the management
console. The secvars PK, trustedcadb, and moduledb can be consumed both
in the static and dynamic key management modes for the loading of signed
third-party kernel modules. However, other secvars i.e. KEK, grubdb,
grubdbx, sbat, db and dbx, which are used to verify the grub and kernel
images, are consumed only in the dynamic key management mode.
Expose only PK, trustedcadb, and moduledb in the static key management
mode.
Co-developed-by: Souradeep <soura@imap.linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Souradeep <soura@imap.linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: R Nageswara Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610211907.101384-3-ssrish@linux.ibm.com
On a PLPKS enabled PowerVM LPAR, the secvar format property for static
key management is misrepresented as "ibm,plpks-sb-unknown", creating
reason for confusion.
Static key management mode uses fixed, built-in keys. Dynamic key
management mode allows keys to be updated in production to handle
security updates without firmware rebuilds.
Define a function named plpks_get_sb_keymgmt_mode() to retrieve the
key management mode based on the existence of the SB_VERSION property
in the firmware.
Set the secvar format property to either "ibm,plpks-sb-v<version>" or
"ibm,plpks-sb-v0" based on the key management mode, and return the
length of the secvar format property.
Co-developed-by: Souradeep <soura@imap.linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Souradeep <soura@imap.linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: R Nageswara Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610211907.101384-2-ssrish@linux.ibm.com
The pseries platform can support dynamic secure boot (i.e. secure boot
using user-defined keys) using variables contained with the PowerVM LPAR
Platform KeyStore (PLPKS). Using the powerpc secvar API, expose the
relevant variables for pseries dynamic secure boot through the existing
secvar filesystem layout.
The relevant variables for dynamic secure boot are signed in the
keystore, and can only be modified using the H_PKS_SIGNED_UPDATE hcall.
Object labels in the keystore are encoded using ucs2 format. With our
fixed variable names we don't have to care about encoding outside of the
necessary byte padding.
When a user writes to a variable, the first 8 bytes of data must contain
the signed update flags as defined by the hypervisor.
When a user reads a variable, the first 4 bytes of data contain the
policies defined for the object.
Limitations exist due to the underlying implementation of sysfs binary
attributes, as is the case for the OPAL secvar implementation -
partial writes are unsupported and writes cannot be larger than PAGE_SIZE.
(Even when using bin_attributes, which can be larger than a single page,
sysfs only gives us one page's worth of write buffer at a time, and the
hypervisor does not expose an interface for partial writes.)
Co-developed-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
[mpe: Add NLS dependency to fix build errors, squash fix from ajd]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230210080401.345462-25-ajd@linux.ibm.com
PowerNV secure variables, which store the keys used for OS kernel
verification, are managed by the firmware. These secure variables need to
be accessed by the userspace for addition/deletion of the certificates.
This patch adds the sysfs interface to expose secure variables for PowerNV
secureboot. The users shall use this interface for manipulating
the keys stored in the secure variables.
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Richter <erichte@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1573441836-3632-3-git-send-email-nayna@linux.ibm.com
