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Missing some hardening flags that Qubes has

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems, security

Research direction

The issue names no repository files or tests. Start by locating the kernel configuration entry points for each supported kernel, then compare them with the listed Qubes 6.18 options. Done means the requested hardening and kernel-config flags are enabled across all kernels.

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Description

The Qubes 6.18 kernel has the following:

CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK=y
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y

We should enable these in all of our kernels actually I think.

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