This now provides a handful of different grsecurity kernels for slightly
different 'flavors' of packages. This doesn't change the grsecurity
module to use them just yet, however.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
AppArmor only requires a few patches to the 3.2 and 3.4 kernels in order
to work properly (with the minor catch grsecurity -stable includes the
3.2 patches.) This adds them to the kernel builds by default, removes
features.apparmor (since it's always true) and makes it the default MAC
system.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service pulls in local-fs.target, which
interferes with NixOps' send-keys feature (since sshd.service depends
indirectly on sysinit.target). Since in NixOS we don't use
systemd-tmpfiles for creating files (that's done by activation scripts
and preStart scripts), it's not a problem to start it a bit later.
Backport: 14.04
kernels:
- longterm: 3.4.87 -> 3.4.88
- longterm: 3.10.37 -> 3.10.38
- stable: 3.13.10 -> 3.13.11
- stable: 3.14.1 -> 3.14.2
grsecurity:
- test: 3.0-3.14.1-201404241722 -> 3.0-3.14.2-201404270907
NOTE: technically the 3.13 stable kernel is now EOL. However, it will
become the long-term grsecurity stable kernel, and will have ongoing
support from Canonical.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Upstream has not been tagging new versions for a long time, but we need
compatibility with newer kernels. The 0.6.2 versions already have a bunch of
backported compatibility patches, but 3.14 kernels need even more.
Also, the git versions have fixed a bunch of crashes and other bugs, so perhaps
we should just bite the bullet and just use recent git versions (as sometimes
upstream recommends, when people run into bugs).
This adds a new "boot.zfs.useGit" boolean option, so that a user can
easily opt into using the git versions.
This creates static device nodes such as /dev/fuse or
/dev/snd/seq. The kernel modules for these devices will be loaded on
demand when the device node is opened.
Note that systemd no longer depends on dbus, so we're rid of the
cyclic dependency problem between systemd and dbus.
This commit incorporates from wkennington's systemd branch
(203dcff45002a63f6be75c65f1017021318cc839,
1f842558a95947261ece66f707bfa24faf5a9d88).
(And update liburcu to 0.8.4 according to release notes for lttng 2.4.x.)
In addition to new features and bug fixes, version 2.4.x is needed to build
against Linux 3.12 (our new stable kernel).
This module implements a significant refactoring in grsecurity
configuration for NixOS, making it far more usable by default and much
easier to configure.
- New security.grsecurity NixOS attributes.
- All grsec kernels supported
- Allows default 'auto' grsec configuration, or custom config
- Supports custom kernel options through kernelExtraConfig
- Defaults to high-security - user must choose kernel, server/desktop
mode, and any virtualisation software. That's all.
- kptr_restrict is fixed under grsecurity (it's unwriteable)
- grsecurity patch creation is now significantly abstracted
- only need revision, version, and SHA1
- kernel version requirements are asserted for sanity
- built kernels can have the uname specify the exact grsec version
for development or bug reports. Off by default (requires
`security.grsecurity.config.verboseVersion = true;`)
- grsecurity sysctl support
- By default, disabled.
- For people who enable it, NixOS deploys a 'grsec-lock' systemd
service which runs at startup. You are expected to configure sysctl
through NixOS like you regularly would, which will occur before the
service is started. As a result, changing sysctl settings requires
a reboot.
- New default group: 'grsecurity'
- Root is a member by default
- GRKERNSEC_PROC_GID is implicitly set to the 'grsecurity' GID,
making it possible to easily add users to this group for /proc
access
- AppArmor is now automatically enabled where it wasn't before, despite
implying features.apparmor = true
The most trivial example of enabling grsecurity in your kernel is by
specifying:
security.grsecurity.enable = true;
security.grsecurity.testing = true; # testing 3.13 kernel
security.grsecurity.config.system = "desktop"; # or "server"
This specifies absolutely no virtualisation support. In general, you
probably at least want KVM host support, which is a little more work.
So:
security.grsecurity.enable = true;
security.grsecurity.stable = true; # enable stable 3.2 kernel
security.grsecurity.config = {
system = "server";
priority = "security";
virtualisationConfig = "host";
virtualisationSoftware = "kvm";
hardwareVirtualisation = true;
}
This module has primarily been tested on Hetzner EX40 & VQ7 servers
using NixOps.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Realistically, common-config is useful, but there are a lot of things in
there that are non-optionally specified that aren't always useful. For
example, when deploying grsecurity, I don't want the bluetooth,
wireless, or input joystick/extra filesystem stack (XFS, etc), nor the
staging drivers tree.
The problem is that if you specify this in your own kernel config in the
grsecurity module, by saying 'BT n' to turn off bluetooth,
common-config turns on 'BT_HCIUART_BCSP y', which then becomes unused
and errors out.
This is really just an arbitrary picking at the moment, but it should be
OK.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
