Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/6] docs: trusted-encrypted: add DCP as new trust source

From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:47:51 +0300

On Wed Apr 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM EEST, David Gstir wrote:
> Update the documentation for trusted and encrypted KEYS with DCP as new
> trust source:
>
> - Describe security properties of DCP trust source
> - Describe key usage
> - Document blob format
>
> Co-developed-by: Richard Weinberger <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email-masked]>
> Co-developed-by: David Oberhollenzer <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: David Gstir <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  .../security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst       | 53 +++++++++++++++++++
>  security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c      | 19 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
> index e989b9802f92..f4d7e162d5e4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
> @@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ safe.
>           randomly generated and fused into each SoC at manufacturing time.
>           Otherwise, a common fixed test key is used instead.
>  
> +     (4) DCP (Data Co-Processor: crypto accelerator of various i.MX SoCs)
> +
> +         Rooted to a one-time programmable key (OTP) that is generally burnt
> +         in the on-chip fuses and is accessible to the DCP encryption engine only.
> +         DCP provides two keys that can be used as root of trust: the OTP key
> +         and the UNIQUE key. Default is to use the UNIQUE key, but selecting
> +         the OTP key can be done via a module parameter (dcp_use_otp_key).
> +
>    *  Execution isolation
>  
>       (1) TPM
> @@ -57,6 +65,12 @@ safe.
>  
>           Fixed set of operations running in isolated execution environment.
>  
> +     (4) DCP
> +
> +         Fixed set of cryptographic operations running in isolated execution
> +         environment. Only basic blob key encryption is executed there.
> +         The actual key sealing/unsealing is done on main processor/kernel space.
> +
>    * Optional binding to platform integrity state
>  
>       (1) TPM
> @@ -79,6 +93,11 @@ safe.
>           Relies on the High Assurance Boot (HAB) mechanism of NXP SoCs
>           for platform integrity.
>  
> +     (4) DCP
> +
> +         Relies on Secure/Trusted boot process (called HAB by vendor) for
> +         platform integrity.
> +
>    *  Interfaces and APIs
>  
>       (1) TPM
> @@ -94,6 +113,11 @@ safe.
>  
>           Interface is specific to silicon vendor.
>  
> +     (4) DCP
> +
> +         Vendor-specific API that is implemented as part of the DCP crypto driver in
> +         ``drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c``.
> +
>    *  Threat model
>  
>       The strength and appropriateness of a particular trust source for a given
> @@ -129,6 +153,13 @@ selected trust source:
>       CAAM HWRNG, enable CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_RNG_API and ensure the device
>       is probed.
>  
> +  *  DCP (Data Co-Processor: crypto accelerator of various i.MX SoCs)
> +
> +     The DCP hardware device itself does not provide a dedicated RNG interface,
> +     so the kernel default RNG is used. SoCs with DCP like the i.MX6ULL do have
> +     a dedicated hardware RNG that is independent from DCP which can be enabled
> +     to back the kernel RNG.
> +
>  Users may override this by specifying ``trusted.rng=kernel`` on the kernel
>  command-line to override the used RNG with the kernel's random number pool.
>  
> @@ -231,6 +262,19 @@ Usage::
>  CAAM-specific format.  The key length for new keys is always in bytes.
>  Trusted Keys can be 32 - 128 bytes (256 - 1024 bits).
>  
> +Trusted Keys usage: DCP
> +-----------------------
> +
> +Usage::
> +
> +    keyctl add trusted name "new keylen" ring
> +    keyctl add trusted name "load hex_blob" ring
> +    keyctl print keyid
> +
> +"keyctl print" returns an ASCII hex copy of the sealed key, which is in format
> +specific to this DCP key-blob implementation.  The key length for new keys is
> +always in bytes. Trusted Keys can be 32 - 128 bytes (256 - 1024 bits).
> +
>  Encrypted Keys usage
>  --------------------
>  
> @@ -426,3 +470,12 @@ string length.
>  privkey is the binary representation of TPM2B_PUBLIC excluding the
>  initial TPM2B header which can be reconstructed from the ASN.1 octed
>  string length.
> +
> +DCP Blob Format
> +---------------
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c
> +   :doc: dcp blob format
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c
> +   :identifiers: struct dcp_blob_fmt
> diff --git a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c
> index 16c44aafeab3..b5f81a05be36 100644
> --- a/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c
> +++ b/security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_dcp.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,25 @@
>  #define DCP_BLOB_VERSION 1
>  #define DCP_BLOB_AUTHLEN 16
>  
> +/**
> + * DOC: dcp blob format
> + *
> + * The Data Co-Processor (DCP) provides hardware-bound AES keys using its
> + * AES encryption engine only. It does not provide direct key sealing/unsealing.
> + * To make DCP hardware encryption keys usable as trust source, we define
> + * our own custom format that uses a hardware-bound key to secure the sealing
> + * key stored in the key blob.
> + *
> + * Whenever a new trusted key using DCP is generated, we generate a random 128-bit
> + * blob encryption key (BEK) and 128-bit nonce. The BEK and nonce are used to
> + * encrypt the trusted key payload using AES-128-GCM.
> + *
> + * The BEK itself is encrypted using the hardware-bound key using the DCP's AES
> + * encryption engine with AES-128-ECB. The encrypted BEK, generated nonce,
> + * BEK-encrypted payload and authentication tag make up the blob format together
> + * with a version number, payload length and authentication tag.
> + */
> +
>  /**
>   * struct dcp_blob_fmt - DCP BLOB format.
>   *

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email-masked]>

I can only test that this does not break a machine without the
hardware feature.

Is there anyone who could possibly peer test these patches?

BR, Jarkko