From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm: security: Move hardened usercopy under 'Kernel hardening options'
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:03:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250117130337.4716-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250117130337.4716-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
There is a submenu for 'Kernel hardening options' under "Security".
Move HARDENED_USERCOPY under the hardening options as it is clearly
related.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
security/Kconfig | 12 ------------
security/Kconfig.hardening | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 28e685f53bd1..fe7346dc4bc3 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -159,18 +159,6 @@ config LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
this low address space will need the permission specific to the
systems running LSM.
-config HARDENED_USERCOPY
- bool "Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace"
- imply STRICT_DEVMEM
- help
- This option checks for obviously wrong memory regions when
- copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and
- copy_from_user() functions) by rejecting memory ranges that
- are larger than the specified heap object, span multiple
- separately allocated pages, are not on the process stack,
- or are part of the kernel text. This prevents entire classes
- of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures.
-
config FORTIFY_SOURCE
bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index c9d5ca3d8d08..00e6e2ed0c43 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -279,6 +279,22 @@ config ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS
endmenu
+menu "String manipulation"
+
+config HARDENED_USERCOPY
+ bool "Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace"
+ imply STRICT_DEVMEM
+ help
+ This option checks for obviously wrong memory regions when
+ copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and
+ copy_from_user() functions) by rejecting memory ranges that
+ are larger than the specified heap object, span multiple
+ separately allocated pages, are not on the process stack,
+ or are part of the kernel text. This prevents entire classes
+ of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures.
+
+endmenu
+
menu "Hardening of kernel data structures"
config LIST_HARDENED
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-17 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-17 13:03 [PATCH 0/3] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-17 13:03 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2025-01-20 21:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: security: Move hardened usercopy under 'Kernel hardening options' Kees Cook
2025-01-21 9:21 ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:42 ` Paul Moore
2025-01-17 13:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: security: Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:21 ` Kees Cook
2025-01-21 12:35 ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-17 13:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] fortify: Move FORTIFY_SOURCE under 'Kernel hardening options' Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:25 ` Kees Cook
2025-01-20 21:08 ` [PATCH 0/3] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Kees Cook
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