1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Security configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 61da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Security options" 71da177e4SLinus Torvalds 88636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/keys/Kconfig" 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10eaf06b24SDan Rosenbergconfig SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT 11eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg bool "Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog" 12eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg default n 13eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg help 14eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg This enforces restrictions on unprivileged users reading the kernel 15eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg syslog via dmesg(8). 16eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 17eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg If this option is not selected, no restrictions will be enforced 18eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg unless the dmesg_restrict sysctl is explicitly set to (1). 19eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 20eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 21eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 2241e8149cSAdrian Ratiuchoice 2341e8149cSAdrian Ratiu prompt "Allow /proc/pid/mem access override" 2441e8149cSAdrian Ratiu default PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE 2541e8149cSAdrian Ratiu help 2641e8149cSAdrian Ratiu Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows users to override memory 2741e8149cSAdrian Ratiu permissions for users like ptrace, assuming they have ptrace 2841e8149cSAdrian Ratiu capability. 2941e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 3041e8149cSAdrian Ratiu This allows people to limit that - either never override, or 3141e8149cSAdrian Ratiu require actual active ptrace attachment. 3241e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 3341e8149cSAdrian Ratiu Defaults to the traditional behavior (for now) 3441e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 3541e8149cSAdrian Ratiuconfig PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE 3641e8149cSAdrian Ratiu bool "Traditional /proc/pid/mem behavior" 3741e8149cSAdrian Ratiu help 3841e8149cSAdrian Ratiu This allows /proc/pid/mem accesses to override memory mapping 3941e8149cSAdrian Ratiu permissions if you have ptrace access rights. 4041e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 4141e8149cSAdrian Ratiuconfig PROC_MEM_FORCE_PTRACE 4241e8149cSAdrian Ratiu bool "Require active ptrace() use for access override" 4341e8149cSAdrian Ratiu help 4441e8149cSAdrian Ratiu This allows /proc/pid/mem accesses to override memory mapping 4541e8149cSAdrian Ratiu permissions for active ptracers like gdb. 4641e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 4741e8149cSAdrian Ratiuconfig PROC_MEM_NO_FORCE 4841e8149cSAdrian Ratiu bool "Never" 4941e8149cSAdrian Ratiu help 5041e8149cSAdrian Ratiu Never override memory mapping permissions 5141e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 5241e8149cSAdrian Ratiuendchoice 5341e8149cSAdrian Ratiu 54*5796d396SJeff Xuconfig MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 55*5796d396SJeff Xu bool "mseal system mappings" 56*5796d396SJeff Xu depends on 64BIT 57*5796d396SJeff Xu depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS 58*5796d396SJeff Xu depends on !CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 59*5796d396SJeff Xu help 60*5796d396SJeff Xu Apply mseal on system mappings. 61*5796d396SJeff Xu The system mappings includes vdso, vvar, vvar_vclock, 62*5796d396SJeff Xu vectors (arm compat-mode), sigpage (arm compat-mode), uprobes. 63*5796d396SJeff Xu 64*5796d396SJeff Xu A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature. 65*5796d396SJeff Xu No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed. 66*5796d396SJeff Xu 67*5796d396SJeff Xu WARNING: This feature breaks programs which rely on relocating 68*5796d396SJeff Xu or unmapping system mappings. Known broken software at the time 69*5796d396SJeff Xu of writing includes CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, UML, gVisor, rr. Therefore 70*5796d396SJeff Xu this config can't be enabled universally. 71*5796d396SJeff Xu 72*5796d396SJeff Xu For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see 73*5796d396SJeff Xu Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst 74*5796d396SJeff Xu 751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SECURITY 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable different security models" 772c40579bSAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS 782813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to choose different security modules to be 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds configured into your kernel. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If this option is not selected, the default Linux security 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds model will be used. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 887ccbe076SMickaël Salaünconfig HAS_SECURITY_AUDIT 897ccbe076SMickaël Salaün def_bool y 907ccbe076SMickaël Salaün depends on AUDIT 917ccbe076SMickaël Salaün depends on SECURITY 927ccbe076SMickaël Salaün 93da31894eSEric Parisconfig SECURITYFS 94da31894eSEric Paris bool "Enable the securityfs filesystem" 95da31894eSEric Paris help 96da31894eSEric Paris This will build the securityfs filesystem. It is currently used by 97b102c11eSPetr Vorel various security modules (AppArmor, IMA, SafeSetID, TOMOYO, TPM). 98da31894eSEric Paris 99da31894eSEric Paris If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 100da31894eSEric Paris 1011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SECURITY_NETWORK 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Socket and Networking Security Hooks" 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SECURITY 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the socket and networking security hooks. 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds implement socket and networking access controls. 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 110d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgensconfig SECURITY_INFINIBAND 111d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens bool "Infiniband Security Hooks" 112d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens depends on SECURITY && INFINIBAND 113d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens help 114d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens This enables the Infiniband security hooks. 115d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 116d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens implement Infiniband access controls. 117d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 118d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens 119df71837dSTrent Jaegerconfig SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM 120df71837dSTrent Jaeger bool "XFRM (IPSec) Networking Security Hooks" 121df71837dSTrent Jaeger depends on XFRM && SECURITY_NETWORK 122df71837dSTrent Jaeger help 123df71837dSTrent Jaeger This enables the XFRM (IPSec) networking security hooks. 124df71837dSTrent Jaeger If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 125df71837dSTrent Jaeger implement per-packet access controls based on labels 126df71837dSTrent Jaeger derived from IPSec policy. Non-IPSec communications are 127df71837dSTrent Jaeger designated as unlabelled, and only sockets authorized 128df71837dSTrent Jaeger to communicate unlabelled data can send without using 129df71837dSTrent Jaeger IPSec. 130df71837dSTrent Jaeger If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 131df71837dSTrent Jaeger 132be6d3e56SKentaro Takedaconfig SECURITY_PATH 133be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda bool "Security hooks for pathname based access control" 134be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda depends on SECURITY 135be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda help 136be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda This enables the security hooks for pathname based access control. 137be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 138be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda implement pathname based access controls. 139be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 140be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda 14131625340SJoseph Cihulaconfig INTEL_TXT 14231625340SJoseph Cihula bool "Enable Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT)" 14369575d38SShane Wang depends on HAVE_INTEL_TXT 14431625340SJoseph Cihula help 14531625340SJoseph Cihula This option enables support for booting the kernel with the 14631625340SJoseph Cihula Trusted Boot (tboot) module. This will utilize 14731625340SJoseph Cihula Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology to perform a measured launch 14831625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel. If the system does not support Intel(R) TXT, this 14931625340SJoseph Cihula will have no effect. 15031625340SJoseph Cihula 1513c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo Intel TXT will provide higher assurance of system configuration and 15231625340SJoseph Cihula initial state as well as data reset protection. This is used to 15331625340SJoseph Cihula create a robust initial kernel measurement and verification, which 15431625340SJoseph Cihula helps to ensure that kernel security mechanisms are functioning 15531625340SJoseph Cihula correctly. This level of protection requires a root of trust outside 15631625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel itself. 15731625340SJoseph Cihula 15831625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT also helps solve real end user concerns about having 15931625340SJoseph Cihula confidence that their hardware is running the VMM or kernel that 1603c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo it was configured with, especially since they may be responsible for 16131625340SJoseph Cihula providing such assurances to VMs and services running on it. 16231625340SJoseph Cihula 163c9fecf50SAlexander A. Klimov See <https://www.intel.com/technology/security/> for more information 16431625340SJoseph Cihula about Intel(R) TXT. 16531625340SJoseph Cihula See <http://tboot.sourceforge.net> for more information about tboot. 166ff61f079SJonathan Corbet See Documentation/arch/x86/intel_txt.rst for a description of how to enable 16731625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT support in a kernel boot. 16831625340SJoseph Cihula 16931625340SJoseph Cihula If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N. 17031625340SJoseph Cihula 171788084abSEric Parisconfig LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 172024e6cb4SAndreas Schwab int "Low address space for LSM to protect from user allocation" 173788084abSEric Paris depends on SECURITY && SECURITY_SELINUX 174530b099dSColin Cross default 32768 if ARM || (ARM64 && COMPAT) 175a58578e4SDave Jones default 65536 176788084abSEric Paris help 177788084abSEric Paris This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 178788084abSEric Paris from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 179788084abSEric Paris can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 180788084abSEric Paris 181788084abSEric Paris For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 182788084abSEric Paris a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 183788084abSEric Paris On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 184788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 185788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need the permission specific to the 186788084abSEric Paris systems running LSM. 187788084abSEric Paris 18864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig STATIC_USERMODEHELPER 18964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Force all usermode helper calls through a single binary" 19064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 19164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman By default, the kernel can call many different userspace 19264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman binary programs through the "usermode helper" kernel 19364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman interface. Some of these binaries are statically defined 19464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman either in the kernel code itself, or as a kernel configuration 19564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman option. However, some of these are dynamically created at 19664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman runtime, or can be modified after the kernel has started up. 19764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman To provide an additional layer of security, route all of these 19864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman calls through a single executable that can not have its name 19964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman changed. 20064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 20164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman Note, it is up to this single binary to then call the relevant 20264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman "real" usermode helper binary, based on the first argument 20364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman passed to it. If desired, this program can filter and pick 20464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman and choose what real programs are called. 20564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 20664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman If you wish for all usermode helper programs are to be 20764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabled, choose this option and then set 20864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH to an empty string. 20964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 21064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH 21164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman string "Path to the static usermode helper binary" 21264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman depends on STATIC_USERMODEHELPER 21364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman default "/sbin/usermode-helper" 21464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 21564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman The binary called by the kernel when any usermode helper 21664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman program is wish to be run. The "real" application's name will 21764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman be in the first argument passed to this program on the command 21864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman line. 21964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 22064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman If you wish for all usermode helper programs to be disabled, 22164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman specify an empty string here (i.e. ""). 22264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 2238636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/selinux/Kconfig" 2248636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/smack/Kconfig" 2258636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/tomoyo/Kconfig" 2268636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/apparmor/Kconfig" 2278636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/loadpin/Kconfig" 2288636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/yama/Kconfig" 229aeca4e2cSMicah Mortonsource "security/safesetid/Kconfig" 230000d388eSMatthew Garrettsource "security/lockdown/Kconfig" 23190945448SMickaël Salaünsource "security/landlock/Kconfig" 23203115077SDeven Bowerssource "security/ipe/Kconfig" 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2348636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/integrity/Kconfig" 2353323eec9SMimi Zohar 2362623c4fbSKees Cookchoice 2372623c4fbSKees Cook prompt "First legacy 'major LSM' to be initialized" 2382623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX if SECURITY_SELINUX 2392623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK if SECURITY_SMACK 2402623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO if SECURITY_TOMOYO 2412623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR if SECURITY_APPARMOR 2422623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2432623c4fbSKees Cook 2442623c4fbSKees Cook help 2452623c4fbSKees Cook This choice is there only for converting CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY 2462623c4fbSKees Cook in old kernel configs to CONFIG_LSM in new kernel configs. Don't 2472623c4fbSKees Cook change this choice unless you are creating a fresh kernel config, 2482623c4fbSKees Cook for this choice will be ignored after CONFIG_LSM has been set. 2492623c4fbSKees Cook 2502623c4fbSKees Cook Selects the legacy "major security module" that will be 2512623c4fbSKees Cook initialized first. Overridden by non-default CONFIG_LSM. 2522623c4fbSKees Cook 2532623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX 2542623c4fbSKees Cook bool "SELinux" if SECURITY_SELINUX=y 2552623c4fbSKees Cook 2562623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 2572623c4fbSKees Cook bool "Simplified Mandatory Access Control" if SECURITY_SMACK=y 2582623c4fbSKees Cook 2592623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 2602623c4fbSKees Cook bool "TOMOYO" if SECURITY_TOMOYO=y 2612623c4fbSKees Cook 2622623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 2632623c4fbSKees Cook bool "AppArmor" if SECURITY_APPARMOR=y 2642623c4fbSKees Cook 2652623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2662623c4fbSKees Cook bool "Unix Discretionary Access Controls" 2672623c4fbSKees Cook 2682623c4fbSKees Cookendchoice 2692623c4fbSKees Cook 27013e735c0SKees Cookconfig LSM 27113e735c0SKees Cook string "Ordered list of enabled LSMs" 27203115077SDeven Bowers default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,smack,selinux,tomoyo,apparmor,ipe,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 27303115077SDeven Bowers default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,apparmor,selinux,smack,tomoyo,ipe,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 27403115077SDeven Bowers default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,tomoyo,ipe,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 27503115077SDeven Bowers default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,ipe,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 27603115077SDeven Bowers default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,selinux,smack,tomoyo,apparmor,ipe,bpf" 27713e735c0SKees Cook help 27813e735c0SKees Cook A comma-separated list of LSMs, in initialization order. 279b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu Any LSMs left off this list, except for those with order 280b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu LSM_ORDER_FIRST and LSM_ORDER_LAST, which are always enabled 281b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu if selected in the kernel configuration, will be ignored. 282b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu This can be controlled at boot with the "lsm=" parameter. 28313e735c0SKees Cook 28413e735c0SKees Cook If unsure, leave this as the default. 28513e735c0SKees Cook 2869f671e58SKees Cooksource "security/Kconfig.hardening" 2879f671e58SKees Cook 2881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 290