Core Routines

veriexec_init(void)

Initialize the Veriexec subsystem. Called only once during system startup.

veriexec_lookup(vp)

Check if vp is monitored by Veriexec. Returns true if it is, or false otherwise.

veriexec_verify(l, vp, name, flag, found)

Verifies the digital fingerprint of vp. name is the filename, and flag is the access flag. The access flag can be one of:

VERIEXEC_DIRECT

The file was executed directly via execve(2).

VERIEXEC_INDIRECT

The file was executed indirectly, either as an interpreter for a script or mapped to an executable memory region.

VERIEXEC_FILE

The file was opened for reading/writing.

l is the LWP for the request context.

An optional argument, found, is a pointer to a boolean indicating whether an entry for the file was found in the Veriexec tables.

veriexec_purge(vp)

Purge the file entry for vp. This invalidates the fingerprint so it will be evaluated next time the file is accessed.

Fingerprint Related Routines

veriexec_fpops_add(fp_type, hash_len, ctx_size, init, update, final)

Add support for fingerprinting algorithm fp_type with binary hash length hash_len and calculation context size ctx_size to Veriexec. init, update, and final are the routines used to initialize, update, and finalize a calculation context.

Table Management Routines

veriexec_file_add(l, dict)

Add a Veriexec entry for the file described by dict.

dict is expected to have the following:

Name	Type	Purpose
file	string	filename
entry-type	uint8	entry type flags (see veriexec(4))
fp-type	string	fingerprint hashing algorithm
fp	data	the fingerprint

veriexec_file_delete(l, vp)

Remove Veriexec entry for vp.

veriexec_table_delete(l, mp)

Remove Veriexec table for mount-point mp.

veriexec_flush(l)

Delete all Veriexec tables.

Hook Handlers

veriexec_openchk(l, vp, path, fmode)

Called when a file is opened.

l is the LWP opening the file, vp is a vnode for the file being opened as returned from namei(9). If NULL, the file is being created. path is the pathname for the file (not necessarily a full path), and fmode are the mode bits with which the file was opened.

veriexec_renamechk(l, fromvp, fromname, tovp, toname)

Called when a file is renamed.

fromvp and fromname are the vnode and filename of the file being renamed. tovp and toname are the vnode and filename of the target file. l is the LWP renaming the file.

Depending on the strict level, veriexec will either track changes appropriately or prevent the rename.

veriexec_removechk(l, vp, name)

Called when a file is removed.

vp is the vnode of the file being removed, and name is the filename. l is the LWP removing the file,

Depending on the strict level, veriexec will either clean-up after the file or prevent its removal.

veriexec_unmountchk(mp)

Checks if the current strict level allows mp to be unmounted.

Miscellaneous Routines

veriexec_convert(vp, rdict)

Convert Veriexec entry for vp to human-readable proplib(3) dictionary, rdict, with the following elements:

Name	Type	Purpose
entry-type	uint8	entry type flags (see veriexec(4))
status	uint8	entry status (see below)
fp-type	string	fingerprint hashing algorithm
fp	data	the fingerprint

The “status” can be one of the following:

Status	Meaning
FINGERPRINT_NOTEVAL	not evaluated
FINGERPRINT_VALID	fingerprint match
FINGERPRINT_MISMATCH	fingerprint mismatch

If no entry was found, ENOENT is returned. Otherwise, zero.

veriexec_dump(l, rarray)

Fill rarray with entries for all files monitored by Veriexec that have a filename associated with them.

Each element in rarray is a dictionary with the same elements as filled by veriexec_convert(), with an additional field, “file”, containing the filename.

Remote File-systems

There is an issue providing protection for files residing on mounts from remote hosts. Because access to the file-system does not necessarily go through veriexec, there is no way to track on-disk changes. While it is possible to minimize the effect by evaluating the file's fingerprint on each access without caching the result, a problem arises when a file is overwritten after its fingerprint has been evaluated and it is running on the local host.

An attacker could potentially overwrite the file contents in the remote host at that point, and force a flush on the local host, resulting in paging in of the files from the disk, introducing malicious code into a supposedly safe address space.

There is a fix for this issue, however due to dependencies on other work that is still in progress it has not been committed yet.

Layered File-systems

Due to VFS limitations, veriexec cannot track the same on-disk file across multiple layers of overlay file-systems. Therefore, you cannot expect changes to files on overlay mounts will be detected simply because the underlying mount is monitored by veriexec.

A workaround for this issue is listing all files, under all mounts, you want monitored in the signature file.