kernelCTF: GHA: add build releaser workflow

.github/workflows/kernelctf-auto-releaser.yaml

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+name: kernelCTF auto releaser
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron:  '0 12 * * *' # every day at 12:00 UTC
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash
+    working-directory: kernelctf
+jobs:
+  get_new_builds:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Install prerequisites
+        run: sudo apt install -yq --no-install-recommends python3-lxml
+
+      - id: check
+        name: Check latest kernel versions
+        run: ./get_latest_kernel_versions.py
+    outputs:
+      releases: ${{ steps.check.outputs.releases }}
+
+  build_release:
+    needs: get_new_builds
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        release: ${{ fromJSON(needs.get_new_builds.outputs.releases) }}
+      fail-fast: false # do not cancel other builds
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/kernelctf-release-build.yaml
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      releaseId: ${{ matrix.release.releaseId }}
+      branch: ${{ matrix.release.branch }}

.github/workflows/kernelctf-release-build.yaml

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+name: kernelCTF release build
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      releaseId:
+        description: 'Release ID'
+        type: string
+        required: true
+      branch:
+        description: 'Branch, tag or commit'
+        type: string
+        required: false
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      releaseId:
+        type: string
+      branch:
+        type: string
+run-name: 'kernelCTF release: ${{inputs.releaseId}}'
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash
+    working-directory: kernelctf
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Check release does not exist yet
+        run: curl --fail -I https://storage.googleapis.com/kernelctf-build/releases/${{inputs.releaseId}}/bzImage && exit 1 || true
+
+      - name: Install prerequisites
+        run: sudo apt install -yq --no-install-recommends build-essential flex bison bc ca-certificates libelf-dev libssl-dev cpio pahole
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: ./build_release.sh ${{inputs.releaseId}} ${{inputs.branch}}
+
+      - name: Show releases
+        run: find releases -type f|xargs ls -al
+
+      - name: Upload release artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ${{inputs.releaseId}}
+          path: kernelctf/releases/${{inputs.releaseId}}
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  upload:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    steps:
+      - name: Download exploit
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ${{inputs.releaseId}}
+          path: ./kernelctf/releases/${{inputs.releaseId}}
+
+      - name: Authenticate to Google Cloud
+        uses: google-github-actions/auth@v1
+        with:
+          credentials_json: '${{secrets.KERNELCTF_GCS_SA_KEY}}'
+
+      - name: Upload release
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/upload-cloud-storage@v1'
+        with:
+          path: kernelctf/releases/${{inputs.releaseId}}
+          destination: kernelctf-build/releases
+          predefinedAcl: publicRead
+          process_gcloudignore: false # removes warnings that .gcloudignore file does not exist

kernelctf/.gitignore

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 .cache/
 __pycache__/
+builds/
+releases/

kernelctf/build_release.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+usage() {
+    echo "Usage: $0 (lts|cos|mitigation)-<version> [<branch-tag-or-commit>]";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
+RELEASE_NAME="$1"
+BRANCH="$2"
+
+if [[ ! "$RELEASE_NAME" =~ ^(lts|cos|mitigation)-(.*) ]]; then usage; fi
+TARGET="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+VERSION="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
+
+case $TARGET in
+  lts)
+    REPO="https://github.com/gregkh/linux"
+    DEFAULT_BRANCH="v${VERSION}"
+    CONFIG_FN="lts.config"
+    ;;
+  cos)
+    REPO="https://cos.googlesource.com/third_party/kernel"
+    ;;
+  mitigation)
+    REPO="https://github.com/thejh/linux"
+    case $VERSION in
+        v3-6.1.55)
+            DEFAULT_BRANCH="mitigations-next"
+            CONFIG_FN="mitigation-v3.config"
+            CONFIG_FULL_FN="mitigation-v3-full.config"
+            ;;
+        6.1 | 6.1-v2)
+            DEFAULT_BRANCH="slub-virtual-v6.1"
+            CONFIG_FN="mitigation-v1.config"
+            ;;
+    esac ;;
+  *)
+    usage ;;
+esac
+
+BRANCH="${BRANCH:-$DEFAULT_BRANCH}"
+if [ -z "$BRANCH" ]; then usage; fi
+
+echo "REPO=$REPO"
+echo "BRANCH=$BRANCH"
+
+BASEDIR=`pwd`
+BUILD_DIR="$BASEDIR/builds/$RELEASE_NAME"
+RELEASE_DIR="$BASEDIR/releases/$RELEASE_NAME"
+CONFIGS_DIR="$BASEDIR/kernel_configs"
+
+if [ -d "$RELEASE_DIR" ]; then echo "Release directory already exists. Stopping."; exit 1; fi
+
+mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR 2>/dev/null || true
+cd $BUILD_DIR
+if [ ! -d ".git" ]; then git init && git remote add origin $REPO; fi
+
+if ! git checkout $BRANCH; then
+    git fetch --depth 1 origin $BRANCH:$BRANCH || true # TODO: hack, solve it better
+    git checkout $BRANCH
+fi
+
+if [ "$TARGET" == "cos" ]; then
+    rm lakitu_defconfig || true
+    make lakitu_defconfig
+    cp .config lakitu_defconfig
+else
+    curl 'https://cos.googlesource.com/third_party/kernel/+/refs/heads/cos-6.1/arch/x86/configs/lakitu_defconfig?format=text'|base64 -d > lakitu_defconfig
+    cp lakitu_defconfig .config
+fi
+
+# build everything into the kernel instead of modules
+# note: this can increase the attack surface!
+sed -i s/=m/=y/g .config
+
+if [ ! -z "$CONFIG_FN" ]; then
+    cp $CONFIGS_DIR/$CONFIG_FN kernel/configs/
+    make $CONFIG_FN
+fi
+
+make olddefconfig
+
+if [ ! -z "$CONFIG_FN" ]; then
+    if scripts/diffconfig $CONFIGS_DIR/$CONFIG_FN .config|grep "^[^+]"; then
+        echo "Config did not apply cleanly."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [ ! -z "$CONFIG_FULL_FN" ]; then
+    if scripts/diffconfig $CONFIGS_DIR/$CONFIG_FULL_FN .config|grep "^[^+]"; then
+        echo "The full config has differences compared to the applied config. Check if the base config changed since custom config was created."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+make -j`nproc`
+
+mkdir -p $RELEASE_DIR 2>/dev/null || true
+
+echo "REPOSITORY_URL=$REPO" > $RELEASE_DIR/COMMIT_INFO
+(echo -n "COMMIT_HASH="; git rev-parse HEAD) >> $RELEASE_DIR/COMMIT_INFO
+
+cp $BUILD_DIR/arch/x86/boot/bzImage $RELEASE_DIR/
+cp $BUILD_DIR/lakitu_defconfig $RELEASE_DIR/
+cp $BUILD_DIR/.config $RELEASE_DIR/
+gzip -c $BUILD_DIR/vmlinux > $RELEASE_DIR/vmlinux.gz

kernelctf/get_latest_kernel_versions.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env -S python3 -u
+import json
+from utils import *
+from lxml import etree
+
+releases = []
+
+def add_release(release_id, branch=None):
+    url = f"https://storage.googleapis.com/kernelctf-build/releases/{release_id}/bzImage"
+    status_code = requests.head(url).status_code
+    if status_code == 200:
+        print("  -> Release already exists, skipping...")
+        return
+    if status_code != 403:
+        fail(f"Unexpected HTTP status code for release check: {status_code} (url = {url})")
+
+    global releases
+    releases.append({ "releaseId": release_id, "branch": branch })
+
+latest_lts = run("git ls-remote --tags --sort='-v:refname' https://github.com/gregkh/linux 'v6.1.*[0-9]'")[0].split("refs/tags/")[1]
+print(f"Latest LTS: {latest_lts}")
+add_release(f"lts-{latest_lts[1:]}")
+
+for cos_milestone in [97, 105]:
+    release_notes = fetch(f"https://cloud.google.com/feeds/cos-{cos_milestone}-release-notes.xml")
+    tree = etree.XML(release_notes.encode('utf-8'))
+    entries = tree.xpath("//*[local-name() = 'content']/text()")
+    latest_entry = entries[0]
+    version_tuple = checkOnlyOne(list(set(re.findall(f"cos-{cos_milestone}-(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)", latest_entry))), "too many versions were found")
+    release_id = f"cos-{cos_milestone}-{'.'.join(version_tuple)}"
+    commit = checkOnlyOne(re.findall("https://cos.googlesource.com/third_party/kernel/\+/([0-9a-f]{40})", latest_entry), "multiple commits were found")
+    print(f"Latest COS {cos_milestone}: {release_id}, commit = {commit}")
+    add_release(release_id, commit)
+
+ghSet("OUTPUT", "releases=" + json.dumps(releases))

kernelctf/kernel_configs/lts.config

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+# CONFIG_IO_URING is not set
+CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS=""

kernelctf/kernel_configs/mitigation-v1.config

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+# CONFIG_IO_URING is not set
+CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS=""
+
+## required by CONFIG_SLAB_VIRTUAL
+CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y
+
+## required by CONFIG_KMALLOC_SPLIT_VARSIZE
+# CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT is not set
+
+## turns on Jann's hardening
+CONFIG_KMALLOC_SPLIT_VARSIZE=y
+CONFIG_SLAB_VIRTUAL=y

kernelctf/kernel_configs/mitigation-v3-full.config

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+################### General hardening ##########################################
+
+# Panic instead of failing gracefully and printing a warning when detecting data
+# corruption (e.g. in list debugging and SLAB_VIRTUAL)
+CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y
+# Check linked lists for corruption. Must be enabled together with
+# CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION.
+CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
+# Prevent overflows and other overwrites in copy_from/to_user
+CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
+# Detect some buffer overflows in strcpy/memcpy
+CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y
+# Sets kernel.dmesg_restrict to 1 by default
+CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT=y
+# Prevent processes belonging to the same (unprivileged) user from ptracing each
+# other except for parents ptracing their children
+CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA=y
+# Zero stack frames on function entry, makes some uninitialized variable uses
+# unexploitable
+CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y
+# Print a warning if there are WX mappings at boot
+CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y
+# Stack canaries
+CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
+CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
+# Guard pages for kernel stacks
+CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
+# Randomize the offset of data on the kernel stack in syscalls
+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET=y
+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT=y
+# Text KASLR
+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
+# Other KASLR
+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY=y
+# Enforce W^X in the kernel
+CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y
+CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y
+# Enable UMIP on the CPU to prevent using sidt/sgdt in userspace to leak kernel
+# pointers (if the CPU supports UMIP)
+CONFIG_X86_UMIP=y
+
+################### CPU side channels ##########################################
+
+# Meltdown mitigation
+CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y
+# Spectre mitigations
+CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y
+CONFIG_CPU_IBPB_ENTRY=y
+CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY=y
+
+################### Memory allocator ###########################################
+
+# SLUB because SLAB_VIRTUAL doesn't support SLAB or SLOB and those are
+# deprecated anyway
+CONFIG_SLUB=y
+# Randomize the order of the freelist when a new slab is created
+CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y
+# Prevent attacks on the SLUB freelists
+CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y
+# Don't merge slab caches (makes random caches/varsize useless and cross-cache easier)
+CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT=n
+# Allocate msg_msg and some other useful objects in separate -cg caches
+CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
+CONFIG_MEMCG=y
+
+################### BPF ########################################################
+
+# Allow sandboxing with seccomp
+CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
+CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER=y
+# This is required for jitting seccomp filters (probably)
+CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y
+# Remove Spectre gadgets in the BPF interpreter
+CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
+CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y
+# Makes the kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled default to 2
+CONFIG_BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF=y
+
+################### Attack surface reduction ###################################
+
+# Disable io_uring
+CONFIG_IO_URING=n
+# Prevent attackers from stopping the kernel inside copy_from/to_user
+CONFIG_USERFAULTFD=n
+CONFIG_FUSE_FS=n
+# Disable staging drivers, which may be more buggy
+CONFIG_STAGING=n
+
+################## Extra mitigations/not upstreamed ############################
+
+# Protects against cross-cache attacks. Must be enabled together with
+# CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
+CONFIG_SLAB_VIRTUAL=y
+# Splits kmalloc caches in fixed-size and dynamic size to make UaF exploitation
+# harder
+CONFIG_KMALLOC_SPLIT_VARSIZE=y
+# Create multiple copies of the normal and -cg kmalloc caches to make spraying
+# harder
+CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES=y
+
+################### Make the kernel less annyoing to debug #####################
+
+# Compile the kernel with debug info
+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y
+# Have all symbols in kallsyms
+CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
+CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
+CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=n
+# Include the kernel configuration in the bzImage/vmlinux
+CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
+CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
+# SLUB stats in /sys/slab
+SLUB_DEBUG=y