Re: [PATCH 7/9] powerpc/configs/skiroot: Enable security features

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:00 PM Daniel Axtens [off-list ref] wrote:

Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] writes:

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From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

This turns on HARDENED_USERCOPY with HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN, and
FORTIFY_SOURCE.

It also enables SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM with _EARLY and
LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_CONFIDENTIALITY options enabled.

As I said before, this will disable xmon entirely. If we want to set
this, we should compile out xmon. But if we want xmon in read-only mode
to be an option, we should pick integrity mode.

I don't really mind, because I don't work with skiroot very
much. Oliver, Joel, Nayna, you all do stuff around this sort of level -
is this a problem for any of you?

Keep it enabled and force INTEGRITY mode. There are some cases where
xmon is the only method for debugging a crashing skiroot (hello SMC
BMCs) so I'd rather it remained available. If there's some actual
security benefit to disabling it entirely then someone should
articulate that.

Oliver