[RFC PATCH 9/9] powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable some more hardening options

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 16 12:48:08 AEDT 2020


Enable more hardening options.

Note BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION selects DEBUG_LIST and is essentially just
a synonym for it.

DEBUG_SG, DEBUG_NOTIFIERS, DEBUG_LIST, DEBUG_CREDENTIALS and
SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK should all be low overhead and just add a few
extra checks.

Unselecting SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT causes the SLAB to use more memory, but
the skiroot kernel shouldn't be memory constrained on any of our
systems, all it does is run a small bootloader.

SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM, and SLUB_DEBUG_ON will add some overhead to the
SLAB allocator, but nothing that should be meaningful for skiroot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
index 12c96c8b0c1d..59c2de904fda 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ CONFIG_EXPERT=y
 # CONFIG_AIO is not set
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
 # CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
+# CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT is not set
+CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y
 CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y
 CONFIG_PPC64=y
 CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y
@@ -293,6 +295,8 @@ CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=y
 # CONFIG_XZ_DEC_SPARC is not set
 CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
 CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
+CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y
+CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y
 CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS=y
 CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
@@ -301,6 +305,10 @@ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC=y
 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG=y
 # CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS=y
+CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y
 # CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
 CONFIG_XMON=y
 # CONFIG_RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU is not set
-- 
2.21.1



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