On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 04:19:06PM +0800, Gary Lin via Grub-devel wrote:
> 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 the malicious root and further dump memory to
> steal the unsealed key.
>
> Do defend against such an 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 an 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 minimize 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.
>
> Cc: Fabian Vogt <fv...@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Lin <g...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stef...@linux.ibm.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 21e239511..df1992305 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
I think you can drop "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;
> + }
> + }
Daniel
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