This change enables support for NXP's QorIQ/Layerscape platforms,
specifically the Traverse Technologies Ten64 (LS1088A).
Signed-off-by: Mathew McBride <matt@traverse.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Since last time we checked, the kernel's security features on ARM have
improved notably (see CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE discussion). This patch
therefore proposes to give the seccomp filter on both 32- and 64-bit ARM
another try, since it provides significant security benefit to
applications using it.
Due to operational constraints, rootfile changes have been omitted, and
will be conducted, should this patch be approved.
Note to future self: Once this patch is approved, applications using
seccomp (OpenSSH, Tor) need to be updated/shipped on ARM.
Fixes: #12366Fixes: #12370
Cc: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne.fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
From the kernels' documentation:
> Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
> enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
> to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
> libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
> are hit by user-space applications.
>
> ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
> managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
> application. )
To the best of the authors' understanding, no application on IPFire
needs this functionality, and given its abuse potential, we should
probably not enable it.
As expected, strace functionality is not impaired by this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
According to the kernel's documentation,
> debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put
> debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and
> write to these files.
There is no legitimate reason why one has to do so on an IPFire machine.
Further, the vast debugging options (i.e. related to various drivers)
have never been enabled, limiting the use of this virtual file system
even further.
This patch therefore proposes to disable it entirely, since its
potential security impact outweights its benefits. Due to operational
constraints, changes to ARM kernel configurations will be made if this
patch is approved for x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
From the kernel documentation:
> For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be
> merged when they share the same size and other characteristics.
> This carries a risk of kernel heap overflows being able to
> overwrite objects from merged caches (and more easily control
> cache layout), which makes such heap attacks easier to exploit
> by attackers. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits
> can usually only damage objects in the same cache. [...]
Thus, it is more sane to leave slab merging disabled. KSPP and ClipOS
recommend this as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Acked-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To quote from the kernel documentation:
> If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
> function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
> __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
> marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
> This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
> exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
> types.
>
> Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
> slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
> tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
> source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
>
> The seed used for compilation is located at
> scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
> a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
> the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
> make distclean.
>
> Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Acked-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Quoted from https://capsule8.com/blog/kernel-configuration-glossary/:
> Significance: Critical
>
> In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR) this randomizes
> the physical address at which the kernel image is decompressed and the virtual
> address where the kernel image is mapped as a security feature that deters
> exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel code internals.
We tried to enable this back in 2020, and failed. Since then, things
may have been improved, so let's give this low-hanging fruit another
try.
Fixes: #12363
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
If available, the kernel will enable IOMMU (a/k/a DMA remapping) by
default on boot. To tools making use of that, particularly hypervisors,
this provides better security without any downsides.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
This patch, which has been merged into the mainline Linux kernel, but
not yet backported to the 5.15.x tree, precisely addresses our
situation: IPFire does not use systemd, but CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT.
The only explanation I have for bug #12889 arising _now_ is that some
component (dracut, maybe) changed its behaviour regarding remounting of
already mounted special file systems. As current dracut won't (re)mount
any file system already found to be mounted, this means that the mount
options decided by the kernel remained untouched for /dev, hence being
weak in terms of options hardening possible.
As CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE would not show up in "make menuconfig", changes
to kernel configurations have been simulated.
Fixes: #12889
Cc: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
This is solely needed for debugging of NFS issues. Due to the attack
surface it introduces, grsecurity recommends to disable it; as we do not
have a strict necessity for this feature, it is best to follow that
recommendation for security reasons.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
in kernel 5.15.32 the driver for ATH9K wlan cards is unstable.
This is one of the most used cards so we need this update before
releasing core167 final.
Signed-off-by: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f@ipfire.org>
LSM was found to render firmware flashing unusable, and patching out LSM
functionality for all features needed (such as /dev/io, direct memory
access and probably raw PCI access for older cards), this would
effectively render much of LSM's functionality useless as well.
For the time being, we do ship LSM, but do not enforce any protection
mode. Users hence can run it in "integrity" or even "confidentiality"
mode by custom commands; hopefully, we will be able to revert this
change at a future point.
Acked-by: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne.fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Since running virtual machines is one of our legitimate use cases, it
makes sense to provide Qemu with the ability of taking advantage of
IOMMU support for safer virtuall memory allocation, if available.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Acked-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
This kernel configuration is a copy of our kernel configuration for
x86_64 on which I ran "make olddefconfig" which will set any unknown
values to their defaults.
This exists so that we have some kernel (which I did not try to boot) to
complete the build process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
This patch removes support for i586 according to the decision being
taken over a year ago.
It removes the architecture from the build system and removes all
required hacks and other quirks that have been necessary before.
There is no need to ship any changed files to the remaining
architectures as the removed code branches have not been used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
