Bug 753296

Summary:	[RFE] Enable FIPS mode
Product:	[Retired] oVirt	Reporter:	Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component:	ovirt-node	Assignee:	Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	bugs <bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	apevec, fdeutsch, hadong, harald, iheim, leiwang, ovirt-bugs, ovirt-maint, pwouters, sgrubb
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Fixed In Version:	2.7.0	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Description Perry Myers 2011-11-11 20:09:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Enable FIPS via default kernel cmdline parameter.  Figure out what breaks when FIPS is enabled, and fix those issues.  Ideally we can enable FIPS for all variants/versions of oVirt Node

Comment 1 Alan Pevec 2011-11-12 09:20:15 UTC

When I tried it on rhevh ISO, fips dracut module required kernel hmac file[1] which is currently not handled by livecd-creator (only initramfs and vmlinuz are copied to isolinux folder) so that needs to fixed first.

On a normal RHEL-6 system, this is provided by the kernel RPM e.g.
/boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.32-217.el6.x86_64.hmac
but I don't see that in F16 kernel RPM. How is FIPS, if at all, working in Fedora?

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=blob;f=modules.d/01fips/fips.sh;h=67eefb819bfb3b61076c14b2d06380f546083de9;hb=HEAD#l64

Comment 2 Mike Burns 2012-04-17 13:33:20 UTC

*** Bug 794868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Paul Wouters 2012-05-09 21:25:28 UTC

I understood this is all moved from dracut into systemd

Comment 5 Steve Grubb 2012-05-10 12:52:34 UTC

It can't move away from dracut due to needing to check the kernel for integrity during stage2. Someone misspoke or confused this with another feature.

Comment 6 Fabian Deutsch 2013-11-28 15:20:24 UTC

Harald,

did you merge the latest FIPS dracut changes into upstream?

Comment 7 Itamar Heim 2014-02-13 18:30:59 UTC

pushing to target release 3.5, assuming its not planned for 3.4 at this point...

Comment 8 Harald Hoyer 2014-03-14 10:42:18 UTC

(In reply to Fabian Deutsch from comment #6)
> Harald,
> 
> did you merge the latest FIPS dracut changes into upstream?

yes

Comment 9 Itamar Heim 2014-06-22 12:27:06 UTC

Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.