# 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 { stdenv, version }: with stdenv.lib; assert (versionAtLeast version "4.9"); '' # Report BUG() conditions and kill the offending process. BUG y ${optionalString (stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux") '' DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 65536 # Prevent allocation of first 64K of memory # Reduce attack surface by disabling various emulations IA32_EMULATION n X86_X32 n MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL? n VMAP_STACK y # Catch kernel stack overflows # Randomize position of kernel and memory. RANDOMIZE_BASE y RANDOMIZE_MEMORY y # Disable legacy virtual syscalls by default (modern glibc use vDSO instead). # # Note that the vanilla default is to *emulate* the legacy vsyscall mechanism, # which is supposed to be safer than the native variant (wrt. ret2libc), so # disabling it mainly helps reduce surface. LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE y ''} # Safer page access permissions (wrt. code injection). Default on >=4.11. ${optionalString (versionOlder version "4.11") '' DEBUG_RODATA y DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX y ''} # Mark LSM hooks read-only after init. Conflicts with SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE # (disabling SELinux at runtime); hence, SELinux can only be disabled at boot # via the selinux=0 boot parameter. ${optionalString (versionAtLeast version "4.12") '' SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE n SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS n ''} DEBUG_WX y # boot-time warning on RWX mappings # Stricter /dev/mem STRICT_DEVMEM y IO_STRICT_DEVMEM y # Perform additional validation of commonly targeted structures. DEBUG_CREDENTIALS y DEBUG_NOTIFIERS y DEBUG_LIST y DEBUG_SG y SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK y BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION y # Perform usercopy bounds checking. HARDENED_USERCOPY y # Randomize allocator freelists. SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM y # Wipe higher-level memory allocations on free() with page_poison=1 PAGE_POISONING y PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY y PAGE_POISONING_ZERO y # Reboot devices immediately if kernel experiences an Oops. PANIC_ON_OOPS y PANIC_TIMEOUT -1 GCC_PLUGINS y # Enable gcc plugin options ${optionalString (versionAtLeast version "4.11") '' GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK y # A port of the PaX structleak plugin ''} # Disable various dangerous settings ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD n # Allows writing directly to physical memory PROC_KCORE n # Exposes kernel text image layout INET_DIAG n # Has been used for heap based attacks in the past # Use -fstack-protector-strong (gcc 4.9+) for best stack canary coverage. CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR n CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG y ''