11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Security configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 51da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenu "Security options" 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7f0894940SDavid Howellssource security/keys/Kconfig 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9eaf06b24SDan Rosenbergconfig SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT 10eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg bool "Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog" 11eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg default n 12eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg help 13eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg This enforces restrictions on unprivileged users reading the kernel 14eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg syslog via dmesg(8). 15eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 16eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg If this option is not selected, no restrictions will be enforced 17eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg unless the dmesg_restrict sysctl is explicitly set to (1). 18eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 19eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 20eaf06b24SDan Rosenberg 211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SECURITY 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable different security models" 232c40579bSAdrian Bunk depends on SYSFS 242813893fSIulia Manda depends on MULTIUSER 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to choose different security modules to be 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds configured into your kernel. 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If this option is not selected, the default Linux security 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds model will be used. 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 34*dd0859dcSJames Morrisconfig SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS 35*dd0859dcSJames Morris depends on SECURITY 36*dd0859dcSJames Morris bool 37*dd0859dcSJames Morris default n 38*dd0859dcSJames Morris 39da31894eSEric Parisconfig SECURITYFS 40da31894eSEric Paris bool "Enable the securityfs filesystem" 41da31894eSEric Paris help 42da31894eSEric Paris This will build the securityfs filesystem. It is currently used by 433323eec9SMimi Zohar the TPM bios character driver and IMA, an integrity provider. It is 443323eec9SMimi Zohar not used by SELinux or SMACK. 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 57df71837dSTrent Jaegerconfig SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM 58df71837dSTrent Jaeger bool "XFRM (IPSec) Networking Security Hooks" 59df71837dSTrent Jaeger depends on XFRM && SECURITY_NETWORK 60df71837dSTrent Jaeger help 61df71837dSTrent Jaeger This enables the XFRM (IPSec) networking security hooks. 62df71837dSTrent Jaeger If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 63df71837dSTrent Jaeger implement per-packet access controls based on labels 64df71837dSTrent Jaeger derived from IPSec policy. Non-IPSec communications are 65df71837dSTrent Jaeger designated as unlabelled, and only sockets authorized 66df71837dSTrent Jaeger to communicate unlabelled data can send without using 67df71837dSTrent Jaeger IPSec. 68df71837dSTrent Jaeger If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 69df71837dSTrent Jaeger 70be6d3e56SKentaro Takedaconfig SECURITY_PATH 71be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda bool "Security hooks for pathname based access control" 72be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda depends on SECURITY 73be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda help 74be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda This enables the security hooks for pathname based access control. 75be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to 76be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda implement pathname based access controls. 77be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 78be6d3e56SKentaro Takeda 7931625340SJoseph Cihulaconfig INTEL_TXT 8031625340SJoseph Cihula bool "Enable Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT)" 8169575d38SShane Wang depends on HAVE_INTEL_TXT 8231625340SJoseph Cihula help 8331625340SJoseph Cihula This option enables support for booting the kernel with the 8431625340SJoseph Cihula Trusted Boot (tboot) module. This will utilize 8531625340SJoseph Cihula Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology to perform a measured launch 8631625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel. If the system does not support Intel(R) TXT, this 8731625340SJoseph Cihula will have no effect. 8831625340SJoseph Cihula 893c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo Intel TXT will provide higher assurance of system configuration and 9031625340SJoseph Cihula initial state as well as data reset protection. This is used to 9131625340SJoseph Cihula create a robust initial kernel measurement and verification, which 9231625340SJoseph Cihula helps to ensure that kernel security mechanisms are functioning 9331625340SJoseph Cihula correctly. This level of protection requires a root of trust outside 9431625340SJoseph Cihula of the kernel itself. 9531625340SJoseph Cihula 9631625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT also helps solve real end user concerns about having 9731625340SJoseph Cihula confidence that their hardware is running the VMM or kernel that 983c556e41SArnaldo Carvalho de Melo it was configured with, especially since they may be responsible for 9931625340SJoseph Cihula providing such assurances to VMs and services running on it. 10031625340SJoseph Cihula 10131625340SJoseph Cihula See <http://www.intel.com/technology/security/> for more information 10231625340SJoseph Cihula about Intel(R) TXT. 10331625340SJoseph Cihula See <http://tboot.sourceforge.net> for more information about tboot. 10431625340SJoseph Cihula See Documentation/intel_txt.txt for a description of how to enable 10531625340SJoseph Cihula Intel TXT support in a kernel boot. 10631625340SJoseph Cihula 10731625340SJoseph Cihula If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N. 10831625340SJoseph Cihula 109788084abSEric Parisconfig LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR 110024e6cb4SAndreas Schwab int "Low address space for LSM to protect from user allocation" 111788084abSEric Paris depends on SECURITY && SECURITY_SELINUX 112530b099dSColin Cross default 32768 if ARM || (ARM64 && COMPAT) 113a58578e4SDave Jones default 65536 114788084abSEric Paris help 115788084abSEric Paris This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected 116788084abSEric Paris from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages 117788084abSEric Paris can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. 118788084abSEric Paris 119788084abSEric Paris For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space 120788084abSEric Paris a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. 121788084abSEric Paris On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. 122788084abSEric Paris Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map 123788084abSEric Paris this low address space will need the permission specific to the 124788084abSEric Paris systems running LSM. 125788084abSEric Paris 126f5509cc1SKees Cookconfig HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 127f5509cc1SKees Cook bool 128f5509cc1SKees Cook help 129f5509cc1SKees Cook The heap allocator implements __check_heap_object() for 130f5509cc1SKees Cook validating memory ranges against heap object sizes in 131f5509cc1SKees Cook support of CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. 132f5509cc1SKees Cook 133f5509cc1SKees Cookconfig HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY 134f5509cc1SKees Cook bool 135f5509cc1SKees Cook help 136f5509cc1SKees Cook The architecture supports CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY by 137f5509cc1SKees Cook calling check_object_size() just before performing the 138f5509cc1SKees Cook userspace copies in the low level implementation of 139f5509cc1SKees Cook copy_to_user() and copy_from_user(). 140f5509cc1SKees Cook 141f5509cc1SKees Cookconfig HARDENED_USERCOPY 142f5509cc1SKees Cook bool "Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace" 143f5509cc1SKees Cook depends on HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY 1446040e576SLinus Torvalds depends on HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 145f5509cc1SKees Cook select BUG 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 151f5509cc1SKees Cook separately allocates pages, are not on the process stack, 152f5509cc1SKees Cook or are part of the kernel text. This kills entire classes 153f5509cc1SKees Cook of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures. 154f5509cc1SKees Cook 1558e1f74eaSKees Cookconfig HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN 1568e1f74eaSKees Cook bool "Refuse to copy allocations that span multiple pages" 1578e1f74eaSKees Cook depends on HARDENED_USERCOPY 15880a77045SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERT 1598e1f74eaSKees Cook help 1608e1f74eaSKees Cook When a multi-page allocation is done without __GFP_COMP, 1618e1f74eaSKees Cook hardened usercopy will reject attempts to copy it. There are, 1628e1f74eaSKees Cook however, several cases of this in the kernel that have not all 1638e1f74eaSKees Cook been removed. This config is intended to be used only while 1648e1f74eaSKees Cook trying to find such users. 1658e1f74eaSKees Cook 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 2011da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource security/selinux/Kconfig 202e114e473SCasey Schauflersource security/smack/Kconfig 20300d7d6f8SKentaro Takedasource security/tomoyo/Kconfig 204f9ad1af5SJohn Johansensource security/apparmor/Kconfig 2059b091556SKees Cooksource security/loadpin/Kconfig 2062d514487SKees Cooksource security/yama/Kconfig 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 208f381c272SMimi Zoharsource security/integrity/Kconfig 2093323eec9SMimi Zohar 2106e65f92fSJohn Johansenchoice 2116e65f92fSJohn Johansen prompt "Default security module" 2126e65f92fSJohn Johansen default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX if SECURITY_SELINUX 2136e65f92fSJohn Johansen default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK if SECURITY_SMACK 2146e65f92fSJohn Johansen default DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO if SECURITY_TOMOYO 215f9ad1af5SJohn Johansen default DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR if SECURITY_APPARMOR 2166e65f92fSJohn Johansen default DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2176e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2186e65f92fSJohn Johansen help 2196e65f92fSJohn Johansen Select the security module that will be used by default if the 2206e65f92fSJohn Johansen kernel parameter security= is not specified. 2216e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2226e65f92fSJohn Johansen config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX 2236e65f92fSJohn Johansen bool "SELinux" if SECURITY_SELINUX=y 2246e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2256e65f92fSJohn Johansen config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 2266e65f92fSJohn Johansen bool "Simplified Mandatory Access Control" if SECURITY_SMACK=y 2276e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2286e65f92fSJohn Johansen config DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 2296e65f92fSJohn Johansen bool "TOMOYO" if SECURITY_TOMOYO=y 2306e65f92fSJohn Johansen 231f9ad1af5SJohn Johansen config DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 232f9ad1af5SJohn Johansen bool "AppArmor" if SECURITY_APPARMOR=y 233f9ad1af5SJohn Johansen 2346e65f92fSJohn Johansen config DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2356e65f92fSJohn Johansen bool "Unix Discretionary Access Controls" 2366e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2376e65f92fSJohn Johansenendchoice 2386e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2396e65f92fSJohn Johansenconfig DEFAULT_SECURITY 2406e65f92fSJohn Johansen string 2416e65f92fSJohn Johansen default "selinux" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX 2426e65f92fSJohn Johansen default "smack" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK 2436e65f92fSJohn Johansen default "tomoyo" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO 244f9ad1af5SJohn Johansen default "apparmor" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR 2456e65f92fSJohn Johansen default "" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC 2466e65f92fSJohn Johansen 2471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 249