From: John Wood <john.wood@gmx.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: John Wood <john.wood@gmx.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/9] security/fbfam: Add a Kconfig to enable the fbfam feature
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 17:21:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200906152127.7041-1-john.wood@gmx.com> (raw)
Add a menu entry under "Security options" to enable the "Fork brute
force attack mitigation" feature.
Signed-off-by: John Wood <john.wood@gmx.com>
---
security/Kconfig | 1 +
security/fbfam/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 security/fbfam/Kconfig
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 7561f6f99f1d..00a90e25b8d5 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ config LSM
If unsure, leave this as the default.
source "security/Kconfig.hardening"
+source "security/fbfam/Kconfig"
endmenu
diff --git a/security/fbfam/Kconfig b/security/fbfam/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bbe7f6aad369
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/fbfam/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+config FBFAM
+ bool "Fork brute force attack mitigation"
+ default n
+ help
+ This is a user defense that detects any fork brute force attack
+ based on the application's crashing rate. When this measure is
+ triggered the fork system call is blocked.
+
+ If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
--
2.25.1
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