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-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix18
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix5
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix
index 8ea05ed14687..ab919099d112 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with lib;
 let
 
   inherit (config.boot) kernelPatches;
-  inherit (config.boot.kernel) features;
+  inherit (config.boot.kernel) features randstructSeed;
   inherit (config.boot.kernelPackages) kernel;
 
   kernelModulesConf = pkgs.writeText "nixos.conf"
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ in
       default = pkgs.linuxPackages;
       apply = kernelPackages: kernelPackages.extend (self: super: {
         kernel = super.kernel.override {
+          inherit randstructSeed;
           kernelPatches = super.kernel.kernelPatches ++ kernelPatches;
           features = lib.recursiveUpdate super.kernel.features features;
         };
@@ -67,6 +68,19 @@ in
       description = "A list of additional patches to apply to the kernel.";
     };
 
+    boot.kernel.randstructSeed = mkOption {
+      type = types.str;
+      default = "";
+      example = "my secret seed";
+      description = ''
+        Provides a custom seed for the <varname>RANDSTRUCT</varname> security
+        option of the Linux kernel. Note that <varname>RANDSTRUCT</varname> is
+        only enabled in NixOS hardened kernels. Using a custom seed requires
+        building the kernel and dependent packages locally, since this
+        customization happens at build time.
+      '';
+    };
+
     boot.kernelParams = mkOption {
       type = types.listOf types.str;
       default = [ ];
@@ -298,7 +312,7 @@ in
       # !!! Should this really be needed?
       (isYes "MODULES")
       (isYes "BINFMT_ELF")
-    ];
+    ] ++ (optional (randstructSeed != "") (isYes "GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT"));
 
     # nixpkgs kernels are assumed to have all required features
     assertions = if config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel ? features then [] else
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix
index df9a628f83da..5a086612925d 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
   # NixOS to implement kernel-specific behaviour.
   features ? {}
 
+, # Custom seed used for CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT if enabled. This is
+  # automatically extended with extra per-version and per-config values.
+  randstructSeed ? ""
+
 , # A list of patches to apply to the kernel.  Each element of this list
   # should be an attribute set {name, patch} where `name' is a
   # symbolic name and `patch' is the actual patch.  The patch may
@@ -162,7 +166,7 @@ let
   }; # end of configfile derivation
 
   kernel = (callPackage ./manual-config.nix {}) {
-    inherit version modDirVersion src kernelPatches stdenv extraMeta configfile;
+    inherit version modDirVersion src kernelPatches randstructSeed stdenv extraMeta configfile;
 
     config = { CONFIG_MODULES = "y"; CONFIG_FW_LOADER = "m"; };
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix
index 4b570c1fe940..1512f47ade40 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ in {
   # Manually specified nixexpr representing the config
   # If unspecified, this will be autodetected from the .config
   config ? stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs allowImportFromDerivation (readConfig configfile),
+  # Custom seed used for CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT if enabled. This is
+  # automatically extended with extra per-version and per-config values.
+  randstructSeed ? "",
   # Use defaultMeta // extraMeta
   extraMeta ? {},
   # Whether to utilize the controversial import-from-derivation feature to parse the config
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ let
         if [ -f scripts/gcc-plugins/gen-random-seed.sh ]; then
           substituteInPlace scripts/gcc-plugins/gen-random-seed.sh \
             --replace NIXOS_RANDSTRUCT_SEED \
-            $(echo ${src} ${configfile} | sha256sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr -d '\n')
+            $(echo ${randstructSeed}${src} ${configfile} | sha256sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr -d '\n')
         fi
       '';