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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:00:57 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] security: Change name of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 05:29:05PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
>> index 118f454..ad6ce82 100644
>> --- a/security/Kconfig
>> +++ b/security/Kconfig
>> @@ -158,6 +158,22 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN
>> been removed. This config is intended to be used only while
>> trying to find such users.
>>
>> +config ARCH_HAS_HARDENED_MAPPINGS
>> + def_bool n
>> +
>> +config HARDENED_PAGE_MAPPINGS
>> + bool "Mark kernel mappings with stricter permissions (RO/W^X)"
>> + default y
>> + depends on ARCH_HAS_HARDENED_MAPPINGS
>> + help
>> + If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
>> + and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
>> + protection against certain security attacks (e.g. executing the heap
>> + or modifying text).
>> +
>> + Unless your system has known restrictions or performance issues, it
>> + is recommended to say Y here.
>
> It's somewhat unfortunate that this means the feature is no longer
> mandatory on arm64 (and s390+x86). We have a boot-time switch to turn
> the protections off, so I was hoping we could make this mandatory on all
> architectures with support.
Oh, I totally missed this. Yes, we need it to stay mandatory. It
should be possible by just adding "select HARDENED_PAGE_MAPPINGS" to
the arch Kconfig, yes?
> It would be good to see if we could make this mandatory for arm and
> parisc, or if it really needs to be optional for either of those.
(Adding mpe to CC...) Michael, what's needed to get this working on powerpc too?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Nexus Security
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