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nixpkgs/nixos/tests/hardened.nix
rnhmjoj a432668acf
dhcpcd: disable privsep by default
The priviledge separation mode has several downsides:

  - it's incompatible with alternative memory allocators, including
    graphene-hardened;

  - it needs an unreleased patch to fix a crash;

  - it results in none less than 6 subprocesses running at any time,
    increasing the memory usage;

  - the privileged process (albeit not doing any networking related
    tasks) is still running as root, so it has complete access to the
    system.

Let's disable this by default and instead run dhcpcd as an unpriviledge
user with only the necessary capabilities.
2024-09-16 01:23:54 +02:00

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import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ... } : {
name = "hardened";
meta = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; {
maintainers = [ joachifm ];
};
nodes.machine =
{ lib, pkgs, config, ... }:
{ users.users.alice = { isNormalUser = true; extraGroups = [ "proc" ]; };
users.users.sybil = { isNormalUser = true; group = "wheel"; };
imports = [ ../modules/profiles/hardened.nix ];
environment.memoryAllocator.provider = "graphene-hardened";
nix.settings.sandbox = false;
virtualisation.emptyDiskImages = [ 4096 ];
boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands = ''
${pkgs.dosfstools}/bin/mkfs.vfat -n EFISYS /dev/vdb
'';
virtualisation.fileSystems = {
"/efi" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/EFISYS";
fsType = "vfat";
options = [ "noauto" ];
};
};
boot.extraModulePackages =
pkgs.lib.optional (pkgs.lib.versionOlder config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.version "5.6")
config.boot.kernelPackages.wireguard;
boot.kernelModules = [ "wireguard" ];
};
testScript =
let
hardened-malloc-tests = pkgs.graphene-hardened-malloc.ld-preload-tests;
in
''
machine.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target")
with subtest("AppArmor profiles are loaded"):
machine.succeed("systemctl status apparmor.service")
# AppArmor securityfs
with subtest("AppArmor securityfs is mounted"):
machine.succeed("mountpoint -q /sys/kernel/security")
machine.succeed("cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles")
# Test loading out-of-tree modules
with subtest("Out-of-tree modules can be loaded"):
machine.succeed("grep -Fq wireguard /proc/modules")
# Test kernel module hardening
with subtest("No more kernel modules can be loaded"):
# note: this better a be module we normally wouldn't load ...
machine.wait_for_unit("disable-kernel-module-loading.service")
machine.fail("modprobe dccp")
# Test userns
with subtest("User namespaces are restricted"):
machine.succeed("unshare --user true")
machine.fail("su -l alice -c 'unshare --user true'")
# Test dmesg restriction
with subtest("Regular users cannot access dmesg"):
machine.fail("su -l alice -c dmesg")
# Test access to kcore
with subtest("Kcore is inaccessible as root"):
machine.fail("cat /proc/kcore")
# Test deferred mount
with subtest("Deferred mounts work"):
machine.fail("mountpoint -q /efi") # was deferred
machine.execute("mkdir -p /efi")
machine.succeed("mount /dev/disk/by-label/EFISYS /efi")
machine.succeed("mountpoint -q /efi") # now mounted
# Test Nix dæmon usage
with subtest("nix-daemon cannot be used by all users"):
machine.fail("su -l nobody -s /bin/sh -c 'nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command ping-store'")
machine.succeed("su -l alice -c 'nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command ping-store'")
# Test kernel image protection
with subtest("The kernel image is protected"):
machine.fail("systemctl hibernate")
machine.fail("systemctl kexec")
with subtest("The hardened memory allocator works"):
machine.succeed("${hardened-malloc-tests}/bin/run-tests")
'';
})