{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.environment.memoryAllocator; # The set of alternative malloc(3) providers. providers = { graphene-hardened = { libPath = "${pkgs.graphene-hardened-malloc}/lib/libhardened_malloc.so"; description = '' An allocator designed to mitigate memory corruption attacks, such as those caused by use-after-free bugs. ''; }; jemalloc = { libPath = "${pkgs.jemalloc}/lib/libjemalloc.so"; description = '' A general purpose allocator that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support. ''; }; scudo = let platformMap = { aarch64-linux = "aarch64"; x86_64-linux = "x86_64"; }; systemPlatform = platformMap.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system} or (throw "scudo not supported on ${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}"); in { libPath = "${pkgs.llvmPackages_latest.compiler-rt}/lib/linux/libclang_rt.scudo-${systemPlatform}.so"; description = '' A user-mode allocator based on LLVM Sanitizer’s CombinedAllocator, which aims at providing additional mitigations against heap based vulnerabilities, while maintaining good performance. ''; }; mimalloc = { libPath = "${pkgs.mimalloc}/lib/libmimalloc.so"; description = '' A compact and fast general purpose allocator, which may optionally be built with mitigations against various heap vulnerabilities. ''; }; }; providerConf = providers.${cfg.provider}; # An output that contains only the shared library, to avoid # needlessly bloating the system closure mallocLib = pkgs.runCommand "malloc-provider-${cfg.provider}" rec { preferLocalBuild = true; allowSubstitutes = false; origLibPath = providerConf.libPath; libName = baseNameOf origLibPath; } '' mkdir -p $out/lib cp -L $origLibPath $out/lib/$libName ''; # The full path to the selected provider shlib. providerLibPath = "${mallocLib}/lib/${mallocLib.libName}"; in { meta = { maintainers = [ maintainers.joachifm ]; }; options = { environment.memoryAllocator.provider = mkOption { type = types.enum ([ "libc" ] ++ attrNames providers); default = "libc"; description = lib.mdDoc '' The system-wide memory allocator. Briefly, the system-wide memory allocator providers are: - `libc`: the standard allocator provided by libc ${concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (name: value: "- `${name}`: ${replaceStrings [ "\n" ] [ " " ] value.description}") providers)} ::: {.warning} Selecting an alternative allocator (i.e., anything other than `libc`) may result in instability, data loss, and/or service failure. ::: ''; }; }; config = mkIf (cfg.provider != "libc") { boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.max_map_count" = mkIf (cfg.provider == "graphene-hardened") (mkDefault 1048576); environment.etc."ld-nix.so.preload".text = '' ${providerLibPath} ''; security.apparmor.includes = { "abstractions/base" = '' r /etc/ld-nix.so.preload, r ${config.environment.etc."ld-nix.so.preload".source}, include "${pkgs.apparmorRulesFromClosure { name = "mallocLib"; baseRules = ["mr $path/lib/**.so*"]; } [ mallocLib ] }" ''; }; }; }