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nixos/hardened: update hardened profile to new recommendations

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Borrowing from here to match hardened profile with more recent kernels:
* https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html?#boot-parameters
* https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kernel-hardening-checker/

Removed "slub_debug" as that option disables kernel memory address
hashing. You also see a big warning about this in the dmesg:
"This system shows unhashed kernel memory addresses via the console, logs, and other interfaces."

"init_on_alloc=1" and "init_on_free=1" zeroes all SLAB and SLUB allocations. Introduced in 6471384af2a6530696fc0203bafe4de41a23c9ef. Also the default for the Android Google kernel btw. It is on by default through the KConfig.

"slab_nomerge" prevents the merging of slab/slub caches. These are
effectively slab/slub pools.

"LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE" disables the older vsyscall mechanic that relies on
static address. It got superseeded by vdsos a decade ago. Read some
LWN.net to learn more ;)

"debugfs=off" I'm sure there are some few userspace programs that rely on
debugfs, but they shouldn't.

Most other things mentioned on the blog where already the default on a
running machine or may not be applicable.

Most other Kconfigs changes come from the kernel hardening checker and
were added, when they were not applied to the kernel already.

Unsure about CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER. Would need testing.
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nixos/modules/profiles/hardened.nix
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@ -39,14 +39,17 @@ with lib;
security.apparmor.killUnconfinedConfinables = mkDefault true;
boot.kernelParams = [
# Slab/slub sanity checks, redzoning, and poisoning
"slub_debug=FZP"
# Don't merge slabs
"slab_nomerge"
# Overwrite free'd memory
# Overwrite free'd pages
"page_poison=1"
# Enable page allocator randomization
"page_alloc.shuffle=1"
# Disable debugfs
"debugfs=off"
];
boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [

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pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/hardened/config.nix
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@ -39,21 +39,33 @@ assert (versionAtLeast version "4.9");
DEBUG_PI_LIST = whenOlder "5.2" yes; # doesn't BUG()
DEBUG_PLIST = whenAtLeast "5.2" yes;
DEBUG_SG = yes;
DEBUG_VIRTUAL = yes;
SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK = yes;
REFCOUNT_FULL = whenOlder "5.4.208" yes;
# tell EFI to wipe memory during reset
# https://lwn.net/Articles/730006/
RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION = yes;
# restricts loading of line disciplines via TIOCSETD ioctl to CAP_SYS_MODULE
CONFIG_LDISC_AUTOLOAD = option no;
# Randomize page allocator when page_alloc.shuffle=1
SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR = whenAtLeast "5.2" yes;
# Allow enabling slub/slab free poisoning with slub_debug=P
SLUB_DEBUG = yes;
# Wipe higher-level memory allocations on free() with page_poison=1
PAGE_POISONING = yes;
PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY = whenOlder "5.11" yes;
PAGE_POISONING_ZERO = whenOlder "5.11" yes;
# Enable init_on_alloc and init_on_free by default
INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON = yes;
INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON = yes;
# Wipe all caller-used registers on exit from a function
ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS = yes;
# Enable the SafeSetId LSM
SECURITY_SAFESETID = whenAtLeast "5.1" yes;
@ -70,6 +82,16 @@ assert (versionAtLeast version "4.9");
GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT = whenOlder "5.19" yes; # A port of the PaX randstruct plugin
GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE = whenOlder "5.19" yes;
# Runtime undefined behaviour checks
# https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/ubsan.html
# https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/16/gcc-undefined-behavior-sanitizer-ubsan
UBSAN = yes;
UBSAN_TRAP = yes;
UBSAN_BOUNDS = yes;
UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL = yes;
UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS = option yes; # clang only
CFI_CLANG = option yes; # clang only Control Flow Integrity since 6.1
# Same as GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT*, but has been renamed to `RANDSTRUCT*` in 5.19.
RANDSTRUCT = whenAtLeast "5.19" yes;
RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE = whenAtLeast "5.19" yes;
@ -97,4 +119,15 @@ assert (versionAtLeast version "4.9");
# CONFIG_DEVMEM=n causes these to not exist anymore.
STRICT_DEVMEM = option no;
IO_STRICT_DEVMEM = option no;
# stricter IOMMU TLB invalidation
IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_STRICT = option yes;
IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_LAZY = option no;
# not needed for less than a decade old glibc versions
LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE = yes;
# Straight-Line-Speculation
# https://lwn.net/Articles/877845/
SLS = option yes;
}