From 215199e3d9f3dc01a6d10b8229891e6f7f1085e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:25:55 -0700 Subject: hardening: Provide Kconfig fragments for basic options Inspired by Salvatore Mesoraca's earlier[1] efforts to provide some in-tree guidance for kernel hardening Kconfig options, add a new fragment named "hardening-basic.config" (along with some arch-specific fragments) that enable a basic set of kernel hardening options that have the least (or no) performance impact and remove a reasonable set of legacy APIs. Using this fragment is as simple as running "make hardening.config". More extreme fragments can be added[2] in the future to cover all the recognized hardening options, and more per-architecture files can be added too. For now, document the fragments directly via comments. Perhaps .rst documentation can be generated from them in the future (rather than the other way around). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/1536516257-30871-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com/ [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/14 Cc: Salvatore Mesoraca Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- arch/arm/configs/hardening.config | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/hardening.config (limited to 'arch/arm') diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/hardening.config b/arch/arm/configs/hardening.config new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..327349ce6377 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/configs/hardening.config @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Basic kernel hardening options (specific to arm) + +# Make sure PXN/PAN emulation is enabled. +CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y + +# Dangerous; old interfaces and needless additional attack surface. +# CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is not set -- cgit v1.2.3