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From: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>,
	Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] efi: Add support for reproducible builds
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5989c010215464284b805c816cf9309f46324b49.1702965318.git.development@efficientek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1702965318.git.development@efficientek.com>

Having randomly generated bytes in the binary output breaks reproducible
builds. Since build timestamps are usually the source of irreproducibility
there is a standard which defines an environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
to be used when set for build timestamps. According to the standard[1], the
value of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is a base-10 integer of the number of seconds
since the UNIX epoch. Currently, this is a 10 digit number that fits into
32-bits, but will not shortly after the year 2100. So to be future-proof
only use the least significant 32-bits. On 64-bit architectures, where the
canary is also 64-bits, there is an extra 32-bits that can be filled to
provide more entropy. The first byte is null to filter out string buffer
overflow attacks and the remaining 24-bits are set to static random bytes.

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
---
 configure.ac | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f15d31ec4c0e..0ba1cd71db00 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1439,7 +1439,9 @@ else
   fi
   TARGET_CPPFLAGS="$TARGET_CPPFLAGS -DGRUB_STACK_PROTECTOR=1"
 
-  if test -r /dev/urandom; then
+  if test -n "$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"; then
+     GRUB_STACK_PROTECTOR_INIT="0x00f2b7e2$(printf "%x" "$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" | sed 's/.*\(........\)$/\1/')"
+  elif test -r /dev/urandom; then
      # Generate the 8 byte stack protector canary at build time if /dev/urandom
      # is able to be read. The first byte should be NUL to filter out string
      # buffer overflow attacks.
-- 
2.34.1


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-19  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-19  5:59 [PATCH v3 0/3] efi: Initialize canary to non-zero value Glenn Washburn
2023-12-19  5:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Glenn Washburn
2023-12-19  6:00 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] efi: Generate stack protector canary at build time if urandom is available Glenn Washburn
2023-12-19  6:00 ` Glenn Washburn [this message]
2023-12-20 13:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] efi: Initialize canary to non-zero value Daniel Kiper

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