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Commit 4f95b5be authored by Anuj Mittal's avatar Anuj Mittal Committed by Bruce Ashfield
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features/security: add configs to harden protection


Add a feature that enables/disables configurations that impact kernel
security with an aim of decreasing the attack surface.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
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# Protect against ioctl buffer overflows
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
# Check for memory copies that might overflow a structure in str*() and mem*()
# functions both at build-time and run-time
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y
# Harden the slab free list with randomization
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y
# Stack Protector is for buffer overflow detection and hardening
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR=y
# Perform extensive checks on reference counting
CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y
# Disable to ensure random heap placement to make exploits harder
# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
# Disable; exposes kernel text image layout
# CONFIG_PROC_KCORE is not set
# Increases the low-level kernel attack surface. Disable it instead.
# Removes the modify_ldt system call.
CONFIG_EXPERT=y
CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL=n
# Modern libc no longer needs a fixed-position mapping in userspace, remove it as a possible target.
# CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE is not set
CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE=y
# Prior to v4.1, assists heap memory attacks; best to keep interface disabled.
# CONFIG_INET_DIAG is not set
# Do not allow direct physical memory access (enable only STRICT mode...)
# CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set
CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
# Perform additional validation of various commonly targeted structures
CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y
define KFEATURE_DESCRIPTION "Enable/disable configurations that impact kernel security"
define KFEATURE_COMPATIBILITY all
kconf non-hardware security.cfg
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