This module implements a significant refactoring in grsecurity
configuration for NixOS, making it far more usable by default and much
easier to configure.
- New security.grsecurity NixOS attributes.
- All grsec kernels supported
- Allows default 'auto' grsec configuration, or custom config
- Supports custom kernel options through kernelExtraConfig
- Defaults to high-security - user must choose kernel, server/desktop
mode, and any virtualisation software. That's all.
- kptr_restrict is fixed under grsecurity (it's unwriteable)
- grsecurity patch creation is now significantly abstracted
- only need revision, version, and SHA1
- kernel version requirements are asserted for sanity
- built kernels can have the uname specify the exact grsec version
for development or bug reports. Off by default (requires
`security.grsecurity.config.verboseVersion = true;`)
- grsecurity sysctl support
- By default, disabled.
- For people who enable it, NixOS deploys a 'grsec-lock' systemd
service which runs at startup. You are expected to configure sysctl
through NixOS like you regularly would, which will occur before the
service is started. As a result, changing sysctl settings requires
a reboot.
- New default group: 'grsecurity'
- Root is a member by default
- GRKERNSEC_PROC_GID is implicitly set to the 'grsecurity' GID,
making it possible to easily add users to this group for /proc
access
- AppArmor is now automatically enabled where it wasn't before, despite
implying features.apparmor = true
The most trivial example of enabling grsecurity in your kernel is by
specifying:
security.grsecurity.enable = true;
security.grsecurity.testing = true; # testing 3.13 kernel
security.grsecurity.config.system = "desktop"; # or "server"
This specifies absolutely no virtualisation support. In general, you
probably at least want KVM host support, which is a little more work.
So:
security.grsecurity.enable = true;
security.grsecurity.stable = true; # enable stable 3.2 kernel
security.grsecurity.config = {
system = "server";
priority = "security";
virtualisationConfig = "host";
virtualisationSoftware = "kvm";
hardwareVirtualisation = true;
}
This module has primarily been tested on Hetzner EX40 & VQ7 servers
using NixOps.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Realistically, common-config is useful, but there are a lot of things in
there that are non-optionally specified that aren't always useful. For
example, when deploying grsecurity, I don't want the bluetooth,
wireless, or input joystick/extra filesystem stack (XFS, etc), nor the
staging drivers tree.
The problem is that if you specify this in your own kernel config in the
grsecurity module, by saying 'BT n' to turn off bluetooth,
common-config turns on 'BT_HCIUART_BCSP y', which then becomes unused
and errors out.
This is really just an arbitrary picking at the moment, but it should be
OK.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Lockdep doesn't *really* require the kernel package - just the kernel
sources. It's really a user-space tool just compiled from some portable
code within the kernel, nothing more.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
- longterm: 3.4.83 -> 3.4.85
- longterm: 3.10.33 -> 3.10.35
- longterm: 3.12.14 -> 3.12.15
- stable: 3.13.7 -> 3.13.8
NOTE: This will break the testing grsec kernel at the moment (there's
not a 3.13.8 patch yet), but it's destined to be upgraded to 3.14 soon
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
- longterm: 3.4.83 -> 3.4.85
- longterm: 3.10.33 -> 3.10.35
- longterm: 3.12.14 -> 3.12.15
- stable: 3.13.7 -> 3.13.8
NOTE: This will break the testing grsec kernel at the moment (there's
not a 3.18.8 patch yet), but it's destined to be upgraded to 3.14 soon
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Lockdep is the kernel's locking validation/debugging tool and has seen
heavy pro-active usage and development. In Linux 3.14, it's now
available directly to userspace for the same purpose. It comes with a
convenient utility to LD_PRELOAD a shared library for validation, or a
user-space API to link to directly.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Based on access analysis with strace, I determined an essentially
minimal required set of files from the kernel source that was needed to
build all current kernel packages on 3.10, which ultimately resulted in
keeping 30M of source. Generalizing from that minimal set, which
required ad-hoc specifications of which headers outside of include/ and
arch/*/include and which files in the scripts/ directory should be kept,
to a policy of keeping all non-arch-specific headers that aren't part of
the drivers/ directory and the entire scripts/ directory added an
additional 17M, but there was nothing in the analysis that indicated
that that ad-hoc specification was at all complete so I think the extra
hit is worth the likely greater compatibility.
For reference, we now keep:
* All headers that are NOT in arch/${notTargetArch}/include or drivers/
* The scripts/ directory
* Makefile
* arch/${targetArch}/Makefile
IMO the most likely cause of future problems are the headers in
drivers/, but hopefully they won't actually be needed as they add 50M
Ideally kernel packages would only use include and
arch/${targetArch}/include, but alas this is observably not the case.
master:
* $out
* size: 234M
* references-closure: linux-headers, glibc, attr, acl, zlib, gcc,
coreutils, perl, bash
merge-kernel-builds:
* $out
* size: 152M
* references-closure: none
* $dev
* size: 57M
* references-closure: linux-headers, glibc, zlib, gcc
So even with the non-minimal set we still beat out master. Keeping the
drivers headers would make us only slightly bigger.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
In most cases, this just meant changing kernelDev (now removed from
linuxPackagesFor) to kernel.dev. Some packages needed more work (though
whether that was because of my changes or because they were already
broken, I'm not sure). Specifics:
* psmouse-alps builds on 3.4 but not 3.10, as noted in the comments that
were already there
* blcr builds on 3.4 but not 3.10, as noted in comments that were
already there
* open-iscsi, ati-drivers, wis-go7007, and openafsClient don't build on
3.4 or 3.10 on this branch or on master, so they're marked broken
* A version-specific kernelHeaders package was added
The following packages were removed:
* atheros/madwifi is superceded by official ath*k modules
* aufs is no longer used by any of our kernels
* broadcom-sta v6 (which was already packaged) replaces broadcom-sta
* exmap has not been updated since 2011 and doesn't build
* iscis-target has not been updated since 2010 and doesn't build
* iwlwifi is part of mainline now and doesn't build
* nivida-x11-legacy-96 hasn't been updated since 2008 and doesn't build
Everything not specifically mentioned above builds successfully on 3.10.
I haven't yet tested on 3.4, but will before opening a pull request.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
This makes the disk usage footprint of building the kernel smaller in 3
ways:
1) There is no separate kernel source derivation
2) Rather than using the entire build tree, only the output of make
modules_prepare is kept in the $dev output (plus the module symbol
versioning file generated during the build)
3) Only the subset of the source tree known to be needed for external
builds is kept in $dev
Note that while 2) is supported by official kernel documentation, I
couldn't find any source describing what we need to keep for 3). I've
started with the bare minimum (the main Makefile is called by the
Makefile generated by make modules_prepare) and we can/should add more
as needed for kernelPackages.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
This has three major benefits:
1. We no longer have two kernel build processes to maintain
2. The build process is (IMO) cleaner and cleaves more closely to
upstream. In partuclar, we use make install to install the kernel and
development source/build trees, eliminating the guesswork about which
files to copy.
3. The derivation has multiple outputs: the kernel and modules are in
the default `out' output, while the build and source trees are in a
`dev' output. This makes it possible for the full source and build tree
to be kept (which is expected by out-of-tree modules) without bloating
the closure of the system derivation.
In addition, if a solution for how to handle queries in the presence of
imports from derivations ever makes it into nix, a framework for
querying the full configuration of the kernel in nix expressions is
already in place.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
In the most general case, the cross and native kernel may differ in
patches and configuration file as well as architecture, kernel target,
etc. It's probably overkill to support that case, but since it was
doable without much duplication and it will make integrating with the
existing cross-compilation support in the generic kernel I decided to
implement it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
nix's version parsing treats the previous name as a package named
`linux' with version `${version}-source', when we really want a package
named `linux-source' with version `${version}'
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
This only affects the `oldaskconfig' make target, so it shouldn't really
affect current manual-config users, but it does make it more
straightforward to implement the generic kernel build on top of
manual-config.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
If the config attrset is manually specified, we still want isYes,
isModule, etc. to work. But we let the passed in config attrset take
precedence, if for some reason the caller wants to provide their own
implementation of one or more of these functions.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
With this, I was able to successfully compile a defconfig kernel for the
sheevaplug, though I didn't actually try to run it (not having a
sheevaplug myself).
For native compiles, the most significant difference is that the
platform's kernel target is built directly rather than hoping the
default make target will pull it in.
Also some stylistic improvements along the way.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
The function ‘mkDerivation’ now checks whether the current platform
type is included in a package's meta.platform field. If not, it
throws an exception:
$ nix-build -A linux --argstr system x86_64-darwin
error: user-thrown exception: the package ‘linux-3.10.15’ is not supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’
These packages also no longer show up in ‘nix-env -qa’ output. This
means, for instance, that the number of packages shown on
x86_64-freebsd has dropped from 9268 to 4764.
Since meta.platforms was also used to prevent Hydra from building some
packages, there now is a new attribute meta.hydraPlatforms listing the
platforms on which Hydra should build the package (which defaults to
meta.platforms).
Although this is a release canidate version of kernel 3.12, there are
reasons for merging this anyway, as discussed in #1010 and #1006.
Thanks to @offlinehacker for this and the initial pull request.
it helps, but is incomplete.
more fixes are coming, but including these would change too much
generic btrfs code, which might cause trouble for others.
so the best advice is not to use btrfs send yet and wait for 3.11 or 3.12
It has been submitted for inclusion in mainline, so it will probably
make it into 3.11 (or 3.12 as 3.11 is fairly close to release).
It is very local, only affecting people who use the "send" feature.
Without it, send is unstable/unsafe to use incrementally.
It can probably be applied to 3.9 and 3.8 as well, but as I only
tested it against 3.10, so I didn't bother.
It's bad to have the kernel config scattered across two places. (This
should also be done for the other architectures.)
Also, restore Xen and KVM guest support in Linux 3.10.
Having N different copies of the NixOS kernel configuration is bad
because these copies tend to diverge. For instance, our 3.10 config
lacked some modules that were enabled in older configs, probably
because the 3.10 config had been copied off an earlier version of some
older kernel config.
So now there is a single kernel config in common-config.nix. It has a
few conditionals to deal with new/removed kernel options, but
otherwise it's pretty straightforward.
Also, a lot of cut&paste boilerplate between the kernel Nix
expressions is gone (such as preConfigure).
9p (with caching enabled) is much faster than CIFS and doesn't require
Samba or virtual networking. For instance, building GNU Hello with
CIFS takes ~323s on my laptop, but with 9p it takes 54s.
More measurements will be needed to see if "cache=fscache" is really
faster than "cache=loose" (the former seems to be a little bit
faster).
Starting with 3.10, #! script handling can be built modularly (or not
at all). By default the nixpkgs builder sets everything modular, but
since our initird init is a #! script this creates a chicken-and-egg
problem on NixOS.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
