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 221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SECURITY 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable different security models" 242c40579bSAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS 252813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to choose different security modules to be 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds configured into your kernel. 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If this option is not selected, the default Linux security 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds model will be used. 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35dd0859dcSJames Morrisconfig SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS 36dd0859dcSJames Morris depends on SECURITY 37dd0859dcSJames Morris bool 38dd0859dcSJames Morris default n 39dd0859dcSJames Morris 40da31894eSEric Parisconfig SECURITYFS 41da31894eSEric Paris bool "Enable the securityfs filesystem" 42da31894eSEric Paris help 43da31894eSEric Paris This will build the securityfs filesystem. It is currently used by 44b102c11eSPetr Vorel various security modules (AppArmor, IMA, SafeSetID, TOMOYO, TPM). 45da31894eSEric Paris 46da31894eSEric Paris If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 47da31894eSEric Paris 481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SECURITY_NETWORK 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Socket and Networking Security Hooks" 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SECURITY 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables the socket and networking security hooks. 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds implement socket and networking access controls. 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 57d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgensconfig SECURITY_INFINIBAND 58d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens bool "Infiniband Security Hooks" 59d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens depends on SECURITY && INFINIBAND 60d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens help 61d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens This enables the Infiniband security hooks. 62d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 63d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens implement Infiniband access controls. 64d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 65d291f1a6SDaniel Jurgens 66df71837dSTrent Jaegerconfig SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM 67df71837dSTrent Jaeger bool "XFRM (IPSec) Networking Security Hooks" 68df71837dSTrent Jaeger depends on XFRM && SECURITY_NETWORK 69df71837dSTrent Jaeger help 70df71837dSTrent Jaeger This enables the XFRM (IPSec) networking security hooks. 71df71837dSTrent Jaeger If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 72df71837dSTrent Jaeger implement per-packet access controls based on labels 73df71837dSTrent Jaeger derived from IPSec policy. Non-IPSec communications are 74df71837dSTrent Jaeger designated as unlabelled, and only sockets authorized 75df71837dSTrent Jaeger to communicate unlabelled data can send without using 76df71837dSTrent Jaeger IPSec. 77df71837dSTrent Jaeger If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 78df71837dSTrent Jaeger 79be6d3e56SKentaro Takedaconfig SECURITY_PATH 80be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda bool "Security hooks for pathname based access control" 81be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda depends on SECURITY 82be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda help 83be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda This enables the security hooks for pathname based access control. 84be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 85be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda implement pathname based access controls. 86be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 87be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda 8831625340SJoseph Cihulaconfig INTEL_TXT 8931625340SJoseph Cihula bool "Enable Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT)" 9069575d38SShane Wang depends on HAVE_INTEL_TXT 9131625340SJoseph Cihula help 9231625340SJoseph Cihula This option enables support for booting the kernel with the 9331625340SJoseph Cihula Trusted Boot (tboot) module. This will utilize 9431625340SJoseph Cihula Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology to perform a measured launch 9531625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel. If the system does not support Intel(R) TXT, this 9631625340SJoseph Cihula will have no effect. 9731625340SJoseph Cihula 983c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo Intel TXT will provide higher assurance of system configuration and 9931625340SJoseph Cihula initial state as well as data reset protection. This is used to 10031625340SJoseph Cihula create a robust initial kernel measurement and verification, which 10131625340SJoseph Cihula helps to ensure that kernel security mechanisms are functioning 10231625340SJoseph Cihula correctly. This level of protection requires a root of trust outside 10331625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel itself. 10431625340SJoseph Cihula 10531625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT also helps solve real end user concerns about having 10631625340SJoseph Cihula confidence that their hardware is running the VMM or kernel that 1073c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo it was configured with, especially since they may be responsible for 10831625340SJoseph Cihula providing such assurances to VMs and services running on it. 10931625340SJoseph Cihula 110c9fecf50SAlexander A. Klimov See <https://www.intel.com/technology/security/> for more information 11131625340SJoseph Cihula about Intel(R) TXT. 11231625340SJoseph Cihula See <http://tboot.sourceforge.net> for more information about tboot. 113e8d776f2SMauro Carvalho Chehab See Documentation/x86/intel_txt.rst for a description of how to enable 11431625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT support in a kernel boot. 11531625340SJoseph Cihula 11631625340SJoseph Cihula If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N. 11731625340SJoseph Cihula 118788084abSEric Parisconfig LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 119024e6cb4SAndreas Schwab int "Low address space for LSM to protect from user allocation" 120788084abSEric Paris depends on SECURITY && SECURITY_SELINUX 121530b099dSColin Cross default 32768 if ARM || (ARM64 && COMPAT) 122a58578e4SDave Jones default 65536 123788084abSEric Paris help 124788084abSEric Paris This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 125788084abSEric Paris from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 126788084abSEric Paris can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 127788084abSEric Paris 128788084abSEric Paris For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 129788084abSEric Paris a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 130788084abSEric Paris On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 131788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 132788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need the permission specific to the 133788084abSEric Paris systems running LSM. 134788084abSEric Paris 135f5509cc1SKees Cookconfig HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 136f5509cc1SKees Cook bool 137f5509cc1SKees Cook help 138f5509cc1SKees Cook The heap allocator implements __check_heap_object() for 139f5509cc1SKees Cook validating memory ranges against heap object sizes in 140f5509cc1SKees Cook support of CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 141f5509cc1SKees Cook 142f5509cc1SKees Cookconfig HARDENED_USERCOPY 143f5509cc1SKees Cook bool "Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace" 1446040e576SLinus Torvalds depends on HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 14522ec1a2aSKees Cook imply STRICT_DEVMEM 146f5509cc1SKees Cook help 147f5509cc1SKees Cook This option checks for obviously wrong memory regions when 148f5509cc1SKees Cook copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and 149f5509cc1SKees Cook copy_from_user() functions) by rejecting memory ranges that 150f5509cc1SKees Cook are larger than the specified heap object, span multiple 15199c55fb1SGeert Uytterhoeven separately allocated pages, are not on the process stack, 1521109a5d9SMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) or are part of the kernel text. This prevents entire classes 153f5509cc1SKees Cook of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures. 154f5509cc1SKees Cook 1556974f0c4SDaniel Micayconfig FORTIFY_SOURCE 1566974f0c4SDaniel Micay bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows" 1576974f0c4SDaniel Micay depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE 158a52f8a59SKees Cook # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41459 159281d0c96SKees Cook depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 120001 160281d0c96SKees Cook # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53645 161281d0c96SKees Cook depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || !X86_32 1626974f0c4SDaniel Micay help 1636974f0c4SDaniel Micay Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions 1646974f0c4SDaniel Micay where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes. 1656974f0c4SDaniel Micay 16664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig STATIC_USERMODEHELPER 16764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Force all usermode helper calls through a single binary" 16864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 16964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman By default, the kernel can call many different userspace 17064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman binary programs through the "usermode helper" kernel 17164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman interface. Some of these binaries are statically defined 17264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman either in the kernel code itself, or as a kernel configuration 17364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman option. However, some of these are dynamically created at 17464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman runtime, or can be modified after the kernel has started up. 17564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman To provide an additional layer of security, route all of these 17664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman calls through a single executable that can not have its name 17764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman changed. 17864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 17964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman Note, it is up to this single binary to then call the relevant 18064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman "real" usermode helper binary, based on the first argument 18164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman passed to it. If desired, this program can filter and pick 18264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman and choose what real programs are called. 18364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 18464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman If you wish for all usermode helper programs are to be 18564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabled, choose this option and then set 18664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH to an empty string. 18764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 18864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH 18964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman string "Path to the static usermode helper binary" 19064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman depends on STATIC_USERMODEHELPER 19164e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman default "/sbin/usermode-helper" 19264e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 19364e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman The binary called by the kernel when any usermode helper 19464e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman program is wish to be run. The "real" application's name will 19564e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman be in the first argument passed to this program on the command 19664e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman line. 19764e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 19864e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman If you wish for all usermode helper programs to be disabled, 19964e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman specify an empty string here (i.e. ""). 20064e90a8aSGreg Kroah-Hartman 2018636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/selinux/Kconfig" 2028636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/smack/Kconfig" 2038636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/tomoyo/Kconfig" 2048636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/apparmor/Kconfig" 2058636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/loadpin/Kconfig" 2068636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/yama/Kconfig" 207aeca4e2cSMicah Mortonsource "security/safesetid/Kconfig" 208000d388eSMatthew Garrettsource "security/lockdown/Kconfig" 20990945448SMickaël Salaünsource "security/landlock/Kconfig" 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2118636a1f9SMasahiro Yamadasource "security/integrity/Kconfig" 2123323eec9SMimi Zohar 2132623c4fbSKees Cookchoice 2142623c4fbSKees Cook prompt "First legacy 'major LSM' to be initialized" 2152623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX if SECURITY_SELINUX 2162623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK if SECURITY_SMACK 2172623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO if SECURITY_TOMOYO 2182623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR if SECURITY_APPARMOR 2192623c4fbSKees Cook default DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2202623c4fbSKees Cook 2212623c4fbSKees Cook help 2222623c4fbSKees Cook This choice is there only for converting CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY 2232623c4fbSKees Cook in old kernel configs to CONFIG_LSM in new kernel configs. Don't 2242623c4fbSKees Cook change this choice unless you are creating a fresh kernel config, 2252623c4fbSKees Cook for this choice will be ignored after CONFIG_LSM has been set. 2262623c4fbSKees Cook 2272623c4fbSKees Cook Selects the legacy "major security module" that will be 2282623c4fbSKees Cook initialized first. Overridden by non-default CONFIG_LSM. 2292623c4fbSKees Cook 2302623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX 2312623c4fbSKees Cook bool "SELinux" if SECURITY_SELINUX=y 2322623c4fbSKees Cook 2332623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 2342623c4fbSKees Cook bool "Simplified Mandatory Access Control" if SECURITY_SMACK=y 2352623c4fbSKees Cook 2362623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 2372623c4fbSKees Cook bool "TOMOYO" if SECURITY_TOMOYO=y 2382623c4fbSKees Cook 2392623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 2402623c4fbSKees Cook bool "AppArmor" if SECURITY_APPARMOR=y 2412623c4fbSKees Cook 2422623c4fbSKees Cook config DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2432623c4fbSKees Cook bool "Unix Discretionary Access Controls" 2442623c4fbSKees Cook 2452623c4fbSKees Cookendchoice 2462623c4fbSKees Cook 24713e735c0SKees Cookconfig LSM 24813e735c0SKees Cook string "Ordered list of enabled LSMs" 249*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,smack,selinux,tomoyo,apparmor,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 250*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,apparmor,selinux,smack,tomoyo,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 251*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,tomoyo,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 252*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,bpf" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 253*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu default "landlock,lockdown,yama,loadpin,safesetid,selinux,smack,tomoyo,apparmor,bpf" 25413e735c0SKees Cook help 25513e735c0SKees Cook A comma-separated list of LSMs, in initialization order. 256*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu Any LSMs left off this list, except for those with order 257*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu LSM_ORDER_FIRST and LSM_ORDER_LAST, which are always enabled 258*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu if selected in the kernel configuration, will be ignored. 259*b9b8701bSRoberto Sassu This can be controlled at boot with the "lsm=" parameter. 26013e735c0SKees Cook 26113e735c0SKees Cook If unsure, leave this as the default. 26213e735c0SKees Cook 2639f671e58SKees Cooksource "security/Kconfig.hardening" 2649f671e58SKees Cook 2651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 267