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fsverity: skip PKCS#7 parser when keyring is empty

If an fsverity builtin signature is given for a file but the
".fs-verity" keyring is empty, there's no real reason to run the PKCS#7
parser. Skip this to avoid the PKCS#7 attack surface when builtin
signature support is configured into the kernel but is not being used.

This is a hardening improvement, not a fix per se, but I've added
Fixes and Cc stable to get it out to more users.

Fixes: 432434c9f8e1 ("fs-verity: support builtin file signatures")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230820173237.2579-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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fs/verity/signature.c
··· 62 62 return 0; 63 63 } 64 64 65 + if (fsverity_keyring->keys.nr_leaves_on_tree == 0) { 66 + /* 67 + * The ".fs-verity" keyring is empty, due to builtin signatures 68 + * being supported by the kernel but not actually being used. 69 + * In this case, verify_pkcs7_signature() would always return an 70 + * error, usually ENOKEY. It could also be EBADMSG if the 71 + * PKCS#7 is malformed, but that isn't very important to 72 + * distinguish. So, just skip to ENOKEY to avoid the attack 73 + * surface of the PKCS#7 parser, which would otherwise be 74 + * reachable by any task able to execute FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY. 75 + */ 76 + fsverity_err(inode, 77 + "fs-verity keyring is empty, rejecting signed file!"); 78 + return -ENOKEY; 79 + } 80 + 65 81 d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + hash_alg->digest_size, GFP_KERNEL); 66 82 if (!d) 67 83 return -ENOMEM;