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Message #38038
[Bug 1244627] Re: Please enable CONFIG_IMA in the ubuntu kernel
Investigations and benchmarking are ongoing to confirm/deny that turning
this on without enabling is cheap enough to enable in the default
configurations.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king)
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Title:
Please enable CONFIG_IMA in the ubuntu kernel
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
I would be doubly happy if this also went into the raring backport
kernel.
I chatted with apw and kees on #ubuntu-kernel earlier in the week.
From a security engineer on our team:
so I was mistaken. if CONFIG_IMA=y, the default policy is NULL unless
you boot with ima_tcb=on. without ima_tcb=y, nothing is measured,
nothing is audited, no performance/memory hit is incurred.
Same is true for CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE, except with the
ima_appraise_tcb=on commandline parameter. ima appraise gives us the
ability to sign binaries at installation time and check the signature
at runtime.
So we are asking that you enable CONFIG_IMA, but to not enable it via
the kernel command line options. IMA would boot with an empty policy
and should incur no overhead. Enterprising folks who want to run IMA
can enable it in grub at their option.
CONFIG_IMA=y
and possibly:
CONFIG_IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX=10
CONFIG_IMA_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES=y
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