On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:50:57PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Limit the set of crypto combinations that may be used for module signing as
> no indication of hash algorithm used for signing is added to the hash of
> the data, so in theory a data blob hashed with a different algorithm can be
> substituted provided it has the same hash output.
> 
> This also rejects the use of less secure algorithms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
> cc: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
> cc: Ignat Korchagin <[email protected]>
> cc: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
> cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> cc: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected]
> cc: [email protected]
> ---
>  crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c 
> b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c
> index 13a5616becaa..90b98e1a952d 100644
> --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c
> +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,52 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("In-software asymmetric public-key 
> subtype");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Red Hat, Inc.");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  
> +struct public_key_restriction {
> +     const char      *pkey_algo;     /* Signing algorithm (e.g. "rsa") */
> +     const char      *pkey_enc;      /* Signature encoding (e.g. "pkcs1") */
> +     const char      *hash_algo;     /* Content hash algorithm (e.g. 
> "sha256") */
> +};
> +
> +static const struct public_key_restriction public_key_restrictions[] = {
> +     /* algo                 encoding        hash */
> +     { "rsa",                "pkcs1",        "sha256" },
> +     { "rsa",                "pkcs1",        "sha384" },
> +     { "rsa",                "pkcs1",        "sha512" },
> +     { "rsa",                "emsa-pss",     "sha512" },
> +     { "ecdsa",              "x962",         "sha256" },
> +     { "ecdsa",              "x962",         "sha384" },
> +     { "ecdsa",              "x962",         "sha512" },
> +     { "ecrdsa",             "raw",          "sha256" },
> +     { "ecrdsa",             "raw",          "sha384" },
> +     { "ecrdsa",             "raw",          "sha512" },
> +     { "mldsa44",            "raw",          "sha512" },
> +     { "mldsa65",            "raw",          "sha512" },
> +     { "mldsa87",            "raw",          "sha512" },
> +     /* ML-DSA may also do its own hashing over the entire message. */
> +     { "mldsa44",            "raw",          "-" },
> +     { "mldsa65",            "raw",          "-" },
> +     { "mldsa87",            "raw",          "-" },
> +};

Have you read software_key_determine_akcipher()?  It's the place where
the encoding and hash_algo are validated currently.  This commit adds a
second set of slightly different checks alongside the existing ones.
It's unclear whether the existing checks were considered.

Also, the ML-DSA and RSASSA-PSS support is new in this patchset, and
this commit is a fix for it.  Instead of committing buggy code that is
fixed by a later commit, it's preferable to commit correct code in the
first place.

- Eric

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