[PATCH v2 07/10] powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable security features
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Fri Jan 24 00:38:03 AEDT 2020
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 04:30, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> From: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
>
> This turns on HARDENED_USERCOPY with HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN, and
> FORTIFY_SOURCE.
>
> It also enables SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM with _EARLY and
> LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_INTEGRITY options enabled. This still allows
> xmon to be used in read-only mode.
>
> MODULE_SIG is selected by lockdown, so it is still enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> [mpe: Switch to lockdown integrity mode per oohal]
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
I did some testing and with change we break kexec. As it's critical
for this kernel to be able to kexec we need to set KEXEC_FILE=y if
we're setting FORCE_INTEGRITY=y.
I've tested your series with that modification made and userspace was
once again able to kexec (with -s).
Cheers,
Joel
> ---
> arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> v2: Switch to lockdown integrity mode rather than confidentiality as noticed by
> dja and discussed with jms and oohal.
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
> index 24a210fe0049..93b478436a2b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
> @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
> CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
> -CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y
> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE=y
> CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512=y
> CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
> @@ -272,6 +271,16 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
> CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
> CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
> CONFIG_ENCRYPTED_KEYS=y
> +CONFIG_SECURITY=y
> +CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
> +# CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_FALLBACK is not set
> +CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN=y
> +CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y
> +CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM=y
> +CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM_EARLY=y
> +CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_INTEGRITY=y
> +# CONFIG_INTEGRITY is not set
> +CONFIG_LSM="yama,loadpin,safesetid,integrity"
> # CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW is not set
> CONFIG_CRC16=y
> CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T=y
> --
> 2.21.1
>
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