bpf: Refuse caller-supplied keyrings when the bpf one is active

Nothing changes for systems that do not use the bpf keyring. Without
bpf.keyring_unsealed=1 a caller-supplied keyring behaves exactly

bpf: Refuse caller-supplied keyrings when the bpf one is active

Nothing changes for systems that do not use the bpf keyring. Without
bpf.keyring_unsealed=1 a caller-supplied keyring behaves exactly as
before, which also lets it serve as the staging step for software
installed onto a running system whose signing key is not enrolled
anywhere yet.

Passing bpf.keyring_unsealed=1 states that the bpf keyring is the trust
anchor for this boot, so from the first program load onwards a caller-
supplied keyring is refused with -EPERM. Deriving this from the boot
flag rather than from the keyring's runtime state keeps the decision
immutable from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260828175227.1537793-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

show more ...

bpf, keys: Add a bpf keyring for program signature validation

BPF program signatures can currently be verified against one of the
system keyrings (builtin, secondary, platform) or against an arbitra

bpf, keys: Add a bpf keyring for program signature validation

BPF program signatures can currently be verified against one of the
system keyrings (builtin, secondary, platform) or against an arbitrary
user/session caller-supplied keyring named through keyring_id. There
is nothing in between: the system keyrings need a kernel rebuild or a
vouched-for enrollment to rotate a key, while a caller-supplied keyring
is fully controlled by the loader and therefore carries no trust on
its own (unless explicitly combined with BPF LSM to protect against
key tampering).

Add a dedicated bpf keyring to fill that gap, modelled after the
dm-verity keyring which was added in commit 033724b1c627 ("dm-verity:
add dm-verity keyring") and which can eventually be used also via
systemd [0] through the same enrollment method as in dm-verity's case.
It is selected with the new KEY_SPEC_BPF_KEYRING special key id and
gives an operator a place to enroll a BPF-only signing key at boot,
specifically scoped to BPF program loading and nothing else in the
kernel's trust hierarchy.

The id is reserved from the KEY_SPEC space so that the latter is not
linked into any process keyring, and lookup_user_key() resolves
KEY_SPEC_BPF_KEYRING constant instead of having to look it up via
/proc/keys first.

By default the keyring is sealed empty at init. Systems that want to
provision keys pass bpf.keyring_unsealed=1, which leaves the keyring
open for the initrd to add keys to. The keyring is only ever consulted
once it is both non-empty and restricted. An unrestricted keyring is
ignored.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/43549 [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260828175227.1537793-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

show more ...