paxtest shows that pax is not enabled on 2.6.14.3

[weeny]

Hello,

i compiled 2.6.4.13 with pax and grsecurity today on two machines (one p4 one Via) and did run paxtest. On the P4 it works fine with softmode. On the Via CPU it shows that obviously no pax feature is effective. I tried both with and without softmode but with the same results.

Other features like protected /proc or randomized pid's from grsecurity are working ok.

Maybe just a stupid mistake...Any hints welcome.

Please check below for paxtest output and kernel config

Regards,

weeny

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Here is the output of paxtest:

Executable anonymous mapping : Vulnerable
Executable bss : Vulnerable
Executable data : Vulnerable
Executable heap : Vulnerable
Executable stack : Vulnerable
Executable anonymous mapping (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Executable bss (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Executable data (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Executable heap (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Executable shared library bss (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Executable shared library data (mprotect): Vulnerable
Executable stack (mprotect) : Vulnerable
Anonymous mapping randomisation test : 9 bits (guessed)
[...]

I enabled the following features for the Pax part:

#
# Security options
#

#
# PaX
#
CONFIG_PAX=y

#
# PaX Control
#
# CONFIG_PAX_SOFTMODE is not set
# CONFIG_PAX_EI_PAX is not set
# CONFIG_PAX_PT_PAX_FLAGS is not set
# CONFIG_PAX_NO_ACL_FLAGS is not set
CONFIG_PAX_HAVE_ACL_FLAGS=y
# CONFIG_PAX_HOOK_ACL_FLAGS is not set

#
# Non-executable pages
#
CONFIG_PAX_NOEXEC=y
CONFIG_PAX_SEGMEXEC=y
# CONFIG_PAX_EMUTRAMP is not set
CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT=y
CONFIG_PAX_NOELFRELOCS=y
CONFIG_PAX_KERNEXEC=y

#
# Address Space Layout Randomization
#
CONFIG_PAX_ASLR=y
CONFIG_PAX_RANDUSTACK=y
CONFIG_PAX_RANDMMAP=y
CONFIG_PAX_NOVSYSCALL=y

...and the following for grsecurity:

#
# Grsecurity
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_LOW is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_MEDIUM is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_HIGH is not set
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CUSTOM=y

#
# Address Space Protection
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_KMEM=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_IO is not set
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_MEMMAP=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_BRUTE is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_HIDESYM is not set

#
# Role Based Access Control Options
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_HIDEKERN=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_MAXTRIES=3
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_TIMEOUT=30

#
# Filesystem Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_USER=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_ADD=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_LINK=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FIFO=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT is not set

#
# Kernel Auditing
#
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_GROUP is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECLOG is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RESLOG is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_EXECLOG is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_CHDIR is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SIGNAL is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FORKFAIL is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TIME is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_IPADDR is not set
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_TEXTREL is not set

#
# Executable Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECVE=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SHM=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_DMESG=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDPID=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE is not set

#
# Network Protections
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDNET=y
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDSRC=y
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET is not set

#
# Sysctl support
#
# CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SYSCTL is not set

#
# Logging Options
#
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FLOODTIME=10
CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FLOODBURST=4
# CONFIG_KEYS is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

[spender]

# CONFIG_PAX_EI_PAX is not set
# CONFIG_PAX_PT_PAX_FLAGS is not set

You need to enable these (at a minimum, the EI_PAX option), otherwise PaX won't be marked on any binaries, and thus won't be enabled on any binaries.

-Brad