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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-15 12:19:20 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-15 12:19:20 -0400 |
commit | 1aaf2e59135fd67321f47c11c64a54aac27014e9 (patch) | |
tree | 633ffa4db3ac6e8d566cba549510561ffd61d8f4 /Documentation | |
parent | 66a4fe0cb80a9fde8cb173289afb863fd279466a (diff) | |
parent | 936e894a976dd3b0f07f1f6f43c17b77b7e6146d (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86-txt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-txt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, intel_txt: clean up the impact on generic code, unbreak non-x86
x86, intel_txt: Handle ACPI_SLEEP without X86_TRAMPOLINE
x86, intel_txt: Fix typos in Kconfig help
x86, intel_txt: Factor out the code for S3 setup
x86, intel_txt: tboot.c needs <asm/fixmap.h>
intel_txt: Force IOMMU on for Intel TXT launch
x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT Sx shutdown support
x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT reboot/halt shutdown support
x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt | 1 |
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1 | Intel(R) TXT Overview: | ||
2 | ===================== | ||
3 | |||
4 | Intel's technology for safer computing, Intel(R) Trusted Execution | ||
5 | Technology (Intel(R) TXT), defines platform-level enhancements that | ||
6 | provide the building blocks for creating trusted platforms. | ||
7 | |||
8 | Intel TXT was formerly known by the code name LaGrande Technology (LT). | ||
9 | |||
10 | Intel TXT in Brief: | ||
11 | o Provides dynamic root of trust for measurement (DRTM) | ||
12 | o Data protection in case of improper shutdown | ||
13 | o Measurement and verification of launched environment | ||
14 | |||
15 | Intel TXT is part of the vPro(TM) brand and is also available some | ||
16 | non-vPro systems. It is currently available on desktop systems | ||
17 | based on the Q35, X38, Q45, and Q43 Express chipsets (e.g. Dell | ||
18 | Optiplex 755, HP dc7800, etc.) and mobile systems based on the GM45, | ||
19 | PM45, and GS45 Express chipsets. | ||
20 | |||
21 | For more information, see http://www.intel.com/technology/security/. | ||
22 | This site also has a link to the Intel TXT MLE Developers Manual, | ||
23 | which has been updated for the new released platforms. | ||
24 | |||
25 | Intel TXT has been presented at various events over the past few | ||
26 | years, some of which are: | ||
27 | LinuxTAG 2008: | ||
28 | http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/conf/events/vp-donnerstag/ | ||
29 | details.html?talkid=110 | ||
30 | TRUST2008: | ||
31 | http://www.trust2008.eu/downloads/Keynote-Speakers/ | ||
32 | 3_David-Grawrock_The-Front-Door-of-Trusted-Computing.pdf | ||
33 | IDF 2008, Shanghai: | ||
34 | http://inteldeveloperforum.com.edgesuite.net/shanghai_2008/ | ||
35 | aep/PROS003/index.html | ||
36 | IDFs 2006, 2007 (I'm not sure if/where they are online) | ||
37 | |||
38 | Trusted Boot Project Overview: | ||
39 | ============================= | ||
40 | |||
41 | Trusted Boot (tboot) is an open source, pre- kernel/VMM module that | ||
42 | uses Intel TXT to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS | ||
43 | kernel/VMM. | ||
44 | |||
45 | It is hosted on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot. | ||
46 | The mercurial source repo is available at http://www.bughost.org/ | ||
47 | repos.hg/tboot.hg. | ||
48 | |||
49 | Tboot currently supports launching Xen (open source VMM/hypervisor | ||
50 | w/ TXT support since v3.2), and now Linux kernels. | ||
51 | |||
52 | |||
53 | Value Proposition for Linux or "Why should you care?" | ||
54 | ===================================================== | ||
55 | |||
56 | While there are many products and technologies that attempt to | ||
57 | measure or protect the integrity of a running kernel, they all | ||
58 | assume the kernel is "good" to begin with. The Integrity | ||
59 | Measurement Architecture (IMA) and Linux Integrity Module interface | ||
60 | are examples of such solutions. | ||
61 | |||
62 | To get trust in the initial kernel without using Intel TXT, a | ||
63 | static root of trust must be used. This bases trust in BIOS | ||
64 | starting at system reset and requires measurement of all code | ||
65 | executed between system reset through the completion of the kernel | ||
66 | boot as well as data objects used by that code. In the case of a | ||
67 | Linux kernel, this means all of BIOS, any option ROMs, the | ||
68 | bootloader and the boot config. In practice, this is a lot of | ||
69 | code/data, much of which is subject to change from boot to boot | ||
70 | (e.g. changing NICs may change option ROMs). Without reference | ||
71 | hashes, these measurement changes are difficult to assess or | ||
72 | confirm as benign. This process also does not provide DMA | ||
73 | protection, memory configuration/alias checks and locks, crash | ||
74 | protection, or policy support. | ||
75 | |||
76 | By using the hardware-based root of trust that Intel TXT provides, | ||
77 | many of these issues can be mitigated. Specifically: many | ||
78 | pre-launch components can be removed from the trust chain, DMA | ||
79 | protection is provided to all launched components, a large number | ||
80 | of platform configuration checks are performed and values locked, | ||
81 | protection is provided for any data in the event of an improper | ||
82 | shutdown, and there is support for policy-based execution/verification. | ||
83 | This provides a more stable measurement and a higher assurance of | ||
84 | system configuration and initial state than would be otherwise | ||
85 | possible. Since the tboot project is open source, source code for | ||
86 | almost all parts of the trust chain is available (excepting SMM and | ||
87 | Intel-provided firmware). | ||
88 | |||
89 | How Does it Work? | ||
90 | ================= | ||
91 | |||
92 | o Tboot is an executable that is launched by the bootloader as | ||
93 | the "kernel" (the binary the bootloader executes). | ||
94 | o It performs all of the work necessary to determine if the | ||
95 | platform supports Intel TXT and, if so, executes the GETSEC[SENTER] | ||
96 | processor instruction that initiates the dynamic root of trust. | ||
97 | - If tboot determines that the system does not support Intel TXT | ||
98 | or is not configured correctly (e.g. the SINIT AC Module was | ||
99 | incorrect), it will directly launch the kernel with no changes | ||
100 | to any state. | ||
101 | - Tboot will output various information about its progress to the | ||
102 | terminal, serial port, and/or an in-memory log; the output | ||
103 | locations can be configured with a command line switch. | ||
104 | o The GETSEC[SENTER] instruction will return control to tboot and | ||
105 | tboot then verifies certain aspects of the environment (e.g. TPM NV | ||
106 | lock, e820 table does not have invalid entries, etc.). | ||
107 | o It will wake the APs from the special sleep state the GETSEC[SENTER] | ||
108 | instruction had put them in and place them into a wait-for-SIPI | ||
109 | state. | ||
110 | - Because the processors will not respond to an INIT or SIPI when | ||
111 | in the TXT environment, it is necessary to create a small VT-x | ||
112 | guest for the APs. When they run in this guest, they will | ||
113 | simply wait for the INIT-SIPI-SIPI sequence, which will cause | ||
114 | VMEXITs, and then disable VT and jump to the SIPI vector. This | ||
115 | approach seemed like a better choice than having to insert | ||
116 | special code into the kernel's MP wakeup sequence. | ||
117 | o Tboot then applies an (optional) user-defined launch policy to | ||
118 | verify the kernel and initrd. | ||
119 | - This policy is rooted in TPM NV and is described in the tboot | ||
120 | project. The tboot project also contains code for tools to | ||
121 | create and provision the policy. | ||
122 | - Policies are completely under user control and if not present | ||
123 | then any kernel will be launched. | ||
124 | - Policy action is flexible and can include halting on failures | ||
125 | or simply logging them and continuing. | ||
126 | o Tboot adjusts the e820 table provided by the bootloader to reserve | ||
127 | its own location in memory as well as to reserve certain other | ||
128 | TXT-related regions. | ||
129 | o As part of it's launch, tboot DMA protects all of RAM (using the | ||
130 | VT-d PMRs). Thus, the kernel must be booted with 'intel_iommu=on' | ||
131 | in order to remove this blanket protection and use VT-d's | ||
132 | page-level protection. | ||
133 | o Tboot will populate a shared page with some data about itself and | ||
134 | pass this to the Linux kernel as it transfers control. | ||
135 | - The location of the shared page is passed via the boot_params | ||
136 | struct as a physical address. | ||
137 | o The kernel will look for the tboot shared page address and, if it | ||
138 | exists, map it. | ||
139 | o As one of the checks/protections provided by TXT, it makes a copy | ||
140 | of the VT-d DMARs in a DMA-protected region of memory and verifies | ||
141 | them for correctness. The VT-d code will detect if the kernel was | ||
142 | launched with tboot and use this copy instead of the one in the | ||
143 | ACPI table. | ||
144 | o At this point, tboot and TXT are out of the picture until a | ||
145 | shutdown (S<n>) | ||
146 | o In order to put a system into any of the sleep states after a TXT | ||
147 | launch, TXT must first be exited. This is to prevent attacks that | ||
148 | attempt to crash the system to gain control on reboot and steal | ||
149 | data left in memory. | ||
150 | - The kernel will perform all of its sleep preparation and | ||
151 | populate the shared page with the ACPI data needed to put the | ||
152 | platform in the desired sleep state. | ||
153 | - Then the kernel jumps into tboot via the vector specified in the | ||
154 | shared page. | ||
155 | - Tboot will clean up the environment and disable TXT, then use the | ||
156 | kernel-provided ACPI information to actually place the platform | ||
157 | into the desired sleep state. | ||
158 | - In the case of S3, tboot will also register itself as the resume | ||
159 | vector. This is necessary because it must re-establish the | ||
160 | measured environment upon resume. Once the TXT environment | ||
161 | has been restored, it will restore the TPM PCRs and then | ||
162 | transfer control back to the kernel's S3 resume vector. | ||
163 | In order to preserve system integrity across S3, the kernel | ||
164 | provides tboot with a set of memory ranges (kernel | ||
165 | code/data/bss, S3 resume code, and AP trampoline) that tboot | ||
166 | will calculate a MAC (message authentication code) over and then | ||
167 | seal with the TPM. On resume and once the measured environment | ||
168 | has been re-established, tboot will re-calculate the MAC and | ||
169 | verify it against the sealed value. Tboot's policy determines | ||
170 | what happens if the verification fails. | ||
171 | |||
172 | That's pretty much it for TXT support. | ||
173 | |||
174 | |||
175 | Configuring the System: | ||
176 | ====================== | ||
177 | |||
178 | This code works with 32bit, 32bit PAE, and 64bit (x86_64) kernels. | ||
179 | |||
180 | In BIOS, the user must enable: TPM, TXT, VT-x, VT-d. Not all BIOSes | ||
181 | allow these to be individually enabled/disabled and the screens in | ||
182 | which to find them are BIOS-specific. | ||
183 | |||
184 | grub.conf needs to be modified as follows: | ||
185 | title Linux 2.6.29-tip w/ tboot | ||
186 | root (hd0,0) | ||
187 | kernel /tboot.gz logging=serial,vga,memory | ||
188 | module /vmlinuz-2.6.29-tip intel_iommu=on ro | ||
189 | root=LABEL=/ rhgb console=ttyS0,115200 3 | ||
190 | module /initrd-2.6.29-tip.img | ||
191 | module /Q35_SINIT_17.BIN | ||
192 | |||
193 | The kernel option for enabling Intel TXT support is found under the | ||
194 | Security top-level menu and is called "Enable Intel(R) Trusted | ||
195 | Execution Technology (TXT)". It is marked as EXPERIMENTAL and | ||
196 | depends on the generic x86 support (to allow maximum flexibility in | ||
197 | kernel build options), since the tboot code will detect whether the | ||
198 | platform actually supports Intel TXT and thus whether any of the | ||
199 | kernel code is executed. | ||
200 | |||
201 | The Q35_SINIT_17.BIN file is what Intel TXT refers to as an | ||
202 | Authenticated Code Module. It is specific to the chipset in the | ||
203 | system and can also be found on the Trusted Boot site. It is an | ||
204 | (unencrypted) module signed by Intel that is used as part of the | ||
205 | DRTM process to verify and configure the system. It is signed | ||
206 | because it operates at a higher privilege level in the system than | ||
207 | any other macrocode and its correct operation is critical to the | ||
208 | establishment of the DRTM. The process for determining the correct | ||
209 | SINIT ACM for a system is documented in the SINIT-guide.txt file | ||
210 | that is on the tboot SourceForge site under the SINIT ACM downloads. | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt b/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt index 4f913857b8a2..feb37e177010 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt | |||
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning | |||
12 | 000/040 ALL screen_info Text mode or frame buffer information | 12 | 000/040 ALL screen_info Text mode or frame buffer information |
13 | (struct screen_info) | 13 | (struct screen_info) |
14 | 040/014 ALL apm_bios_info APM BIOS information (struct apm_bios_info) | 14 | 040/014 ALL apm_bios_info APM BIOS information (struct apm_bios_info) |
15 | 058/008 ALL tboot_addr Physical address of tboot shared page | ||
15 | 060/010 ALL ist_info Intel SpeedStep (IST) BIOS support information | 16 | 060/010 ALL ist_info Intel SpeedStep (IST) BIOS support information |
16 | (struct ist_info) | 17 | (struct ist_info) |
17 | 080/010 ALL hd0_info hd0 disk parameter, OBSOLETE!! | 18 | 080/010 ALL hd0_info hd0 disk parameter, OBSOLETE!! |