[PATCH v7 20/20] diskfilter: look up cryptodisk devices first - Gary Lin via Grub-devel

From: Gary Lin via Grub-devel <grub-devel@gnu.org>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>,
	Hernan Gatta <hegatta@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
	'Daniel Kiper ' <dkiper@net-space.pl>,
	shkhisti@microsoft.com, jaskaran.khurana@microsoft.com,
	christopher.co@microsoft.com, daniel.mihai@microsoft.com,
	jaredz@redhat.com, development@efficientek.com,
	jejb@linux.ibm.com, mchang@suse.com, Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 20/20] diskfilter: look up cryptodisk devices first
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:16:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231120071644.14547-21-glin@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231120071644.14547-1-glin@suse.com>

When using disk auto-unlocking with TPM 2.0, the typical grub.cfg may
look like this:

  tpm2_key_protector_init --tpm2key=(hd0,gpt1)/boot/grub2/sealed.tpm
  cryptomount -u <PART-UUID> -P tpm2
  search --fs-uuid --set=root <FS-UUID>

Since the disk search order is based on the order of module loading, the
attacker could insert a malicious disk with the same FS-UUID root to
trick grub2 to boot into th malicious root and further dump memory to
steal the unsealed key.

To defend such attack, we can specify the hint provided by 'grub-probe'
to search the encrypted partition first:

search --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='cryptouuid/<PART-UUID>' <FS-UUID>

However, for LVM on a encrypted partition, the search hint provided by
'grub-probe' is:

  --hint='lvmid/<VG-UUID>/<LV-UUID>'

It doesn't guarantee to look up the logical volume from the encrypted
partition, so the attacker may have the chance to fool grub2 to boot
into the malicious disk.

To mininize the attack surface, this commit tweaks the disk device search
in diskfilter to look up cryptodisk devices first and then others, so
that the auto-unlocked disk will be found first, not the attacker's disk.

Signed-off-by: Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
Cc: Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com>
---
 grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
index 61a311efd..94832c8dd 100644
--- a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
+++ b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
@@ -226,15 +226,32 @@ scan_devices (const char *arname)
   int need_rescan;
 
   for (pull = 0; pull < GRUB_DISK_PULL_MAX; pull++)
-    for (p = grub_disk_dev_list; p; p = p->next)
-      if (p->id != GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_DISKFILTER_ID
-	  && p->disk_iterate)
-	{
-	  if ((p->disk_iterate) (scan_disk_hook, NULL, pull))
-	    return;
-	  if (arname && is_lv_readable (find_lv (arname), 1))
-	    return;
-	}
+    {
+      /* look up the crytodisk devices first */
+      for (p = grub_disk_dev_list; p; p = p->next)
+	if (p->id == GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_CRYPTODISK_ID
+	    && p->disk_iterate)
+	  {
+	    if ((p->disk_iterate) (scan_disk_hook, NULL, pull))
+	      return;
+	    if (arname && is_lv_readable (find_lv (arname), 1))
+	      return;
+	    break;
+	  }
+
+      /* check the devices other than crytodisk */
+      for (p = grub_disk_dev_list; p; p = p->next)
+	if (p->id == GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_CRYPTODISK_ID)
+	  continue;
+	else if (p->id != GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_DISKFILTER_ID
+	    && p->disk_iterate)
+	  {
+	    if ((p->disk_iterate) (scan_disk_hook, NULL, pull))
+	      return;
+	    if (arname && is_lv_readable (find_lv (arname), 1))
+	      return;
+	  }
+    }
 
   scan_depth = 0;
   need_rescan = 1;
-- 
2.35.3


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