# Based on recommendations from: # http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project#Recommended_settings # https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Hardened_Kernel_Project # # Dangerous features that can be permanently (for the boot session) disabled at # boot via sysctl or kernel cmdline are left enabled here, for improved # flexibility. # # See also { lib, version }: with lib; with lib.kernel; with (lib.kernel.whenHelpers version); assert (versionAtLeast version "4.9"); { # Report BUG() conditions and kill the offending process. BUG = yes; # Safer page access permissions (wrt. code injection). Default on >=4.11. DEBUG_RODATA = whenOlder "4.11" yes; DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX = whenOlder "4.11" yes; # Mark LSM hooks read-only after init. SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS n # conflicts with SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE y; disabling the latter # implicitly marks LSM hooks read-only after init. # # SELinux can only be disabled at boot via selinux=0 # # We set SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS n primarily for documentation purposes; the # config builder fails to detect that it has indeed been unset. SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE = whenAtLeast "4.12" no; SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS = whenAtLeast "4.12" (option no); STRICT_KERNEL_RWX = whenAtLeast "4.11" yes; # Perform additional validation of commonly targeted structures. DEBUG_CREDENTIALS = yes; DEBUG_NOTIFIERS = yes; DEBUG_PI_LIST = whenOlder "5.2" yes; # doesn't BUG() DEBUG_PLIST = whenAtLeast "5.2" yes; DEBUG_SG = yes; SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK = yes; REFCOUNT_FULL = whenBetween "4.13" "5.5" yes; # Randomize page allocator when page_alloc.shuffle=1 SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR = whenAtLeast "5.2" yes; # Allow enabling slub/slab free poisoning with slub_debug=P SLUB_DEBUG = yes; # Wipe higher-level memory allocations on free() with page_poison=1 PAGE_POISONING = yes; PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY = whenOlder "5.11" yes; PAGE_POISONING_ZERO = whenOlder "5.11" yes; # Enable the SafeSetId LSM SECURITY_SAFESETID = whenAtLeast "5.1" yes; # Reboot devices immediately if kernel experiences an Oops. PANIC_TIMEOUT = freeform "-1"; GCC_PLUGINS = yes; # Enable gcc plugin options # Gather additional entropy at boot time for systems that may not have appropriate entropy sources. GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY = yes; GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK = whenAtLeast "4.11" yes; # A port of the PaX structleak plugin GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL = whenAtLeast "4.14" yes; # Also cover structs passed by address GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK = whenAtLeast "4.20" yes; # A port of the PaX stackleak plugin GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT = whenAtLeast "4.13" yes; # A port of the PaX randstruct plugin GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE = whenAtLeast "4.13" yes; # Disable various dangerous settings ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD = no; # Allows writing directly to physical memory PROC_KCORE = no; # Exposes kernel text image layout INET_DIAG = no; # Has been used for heap based attacks in the past # INET_DIAG=n causes the following options to not exist anymore, but since they are defined in common-config.nix, # make them optional INET_DIAG_DESTROY = option no; INET_RAW_DIAG = option no; INET_TCP_DIAG = option no; INET_UDP_DIAG = option no; INET_MPTCP_DIAG = option no; # Use -fstack-protector-strong (gcc 4.9+) for best stack canary coverage. CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR = whenOlder "4.18" no; CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG = whenOlder "4.18" yes; # Detect out-of-bound reads/writes and use-after-free KFENCE = whenAtLeast "5.12" yes; }