Add the comment about 'if arch' for the 'cut_attack_surface' checks

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# Linux/arm64 6.6.7 Kernel Configuration

# Report BUG() conditions and kill the offending process.
CONFIG_BUG=y

# Make sure kernel page tables have safe permissions.
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y

# Report any dangerous memory permissions (not available on all archs).
CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y

# Use -fstack-protector-strong (gcc 4.9+) for best stack canary coverage.
# Prior to v4.18, these are:
#  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
#  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y

# Do not allow direct physical memory access (but if you must have it, at least enable STRICT mode...)
# CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set
CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=y

# Provides some protections against SYN flooding.
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y

# Perform additional validation of various commonly targeted structures.
CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y
CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y
CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y

# Provide userspace with seccomp BPF API for syscall attack surface reduction.
CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER=y

# Make sure line disciplines can't be autoloaded (since v5.1).
# CONFIG_LDISC_AUTOLOAD is not set

# Provide userspace with ptrace ancestry protections.
# Make sure that "yama" is also present in the "CONFIG_LSM=yama,..." list.
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA=y

# Provide userspace with Landlock MAC interface.
# Make sure that "landlock" is also present in the "CONFIG_LSM=landlock,..." list.
CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=y

# Make sure SELinux cannot be disabled trivially.
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_WRITABLE_HOOKS is not set

# Enable "lockdown" LSM for bright line between the root user and kernel memory.
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM_EARLY=y
CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL_FORCE_CONFIDENTIALITY=y

# Perform usercopy bounds checking. (And disable fallback to gain full whitelist enforcement.)
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
# CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_FALLBACK is not set
# CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN is not set

# Randomize allocator freelists, harden metadata.
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y
CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES=y

# Make cross-slab heap attacks not as trivial when object sizes are the same. (Same as slab_nomerge boot param.)
# CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT is not set

# Allow for randomization of high-order page allocation freelist. Must be enabled with
# the "page_alloc.shuffle=1" command line below).
CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y

# Sanity check userspace page table mappings (since v5.17)
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK=y
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED=y

# Allow allocator validation checking to be enabled (see "slub_debug=P" below).
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y

# Wipe higher-level memory allocations when they are freed (needs "page_poison=1" command line below).
# (If you can afford even more performance penalty, leave CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY=n)
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY=y
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO=y

# Wipe slab and page allocations (since v5.3)
# Instead of "slub_debug=P" and "page_poison=1", a single place can control memory allocation wiping now.
# The init_on_free is only needed if there is concern about minimizing stale data lifetime.
CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y

# Initialize all stack variables on function entry. (Clang and GCC 12+ builds only. For earlier GCC, see CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL=y below)
CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y

# Adds guard pages to kernel stacks (not all architectures support this yet).
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y

# Perform extensive checks on reference counting.
CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y

# Check for memory copies that might overflow a structure in str*() and mem*() functions both at build-time and run-time.
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y

# Avoid kernel memory address exposures via dmesg (sets sysctl kernel.dmesg_restrict initial value to 1)
CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT=y

# Enable trapping bounds checking of array indexes (since v5.11). All the other UBSAN checks should be disabled.
CONFIG_UBSAN=y
CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y
CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y
CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y
# CONFIG_UBSAN_SHIFT is not set
# CONFIG_UBSAN_DIV_ZERO is not set
# CONFIG_UBSAN_UNREACHABLE is not set
# CONFIG_UBSAN_BOOL is not set
# CONFIG_UBSAN_ENUM is not set
# CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT is not set
# This is only available on Clang builds, and is likely already enabled if CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y is set:
CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS=y

# Enable sampling-based overflow detection (since v5.12). This is similar to KASAN coverage, but with almost zero runtime overhead.
CONFIG_KFENCE=y
CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL=100

# Randomize kernel stack offset on syscall entry (since v5.13).
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT=y

# Do not ignore compile-time warnings (since v5.15)
CONFIG_WERROR=y

# Disable DMA between EFI hand-off and the kernel's IOMMU setup.
CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_PCI_DMA=y

# Force IOMMU TLB invalidation so devices will never be able to access stale data contents (or set "iommu.passthrough=0 iommu.strict=1" at boot)
CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_STRICT=y

# Enable feeding RNG entropy from TPM, if available.
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_TPM=y

# Get as much entropy as possible from external sources. The Chacha mixer isn't vulnerable to injected entropy, so even
# malicious sources should not cause problems.
CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER=y
CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y

# Make scheduler aware of SMT Cores. Program needs to opt-in to using this feature with prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE).
CONFIG_SCHED_CORE=y

# Wipe all caller-used registers on exit from the function (reduces available ROP gadgets and
# minimizes stale data in registers). (Since v5.15)
CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS=y

# Wipe RAM at reboot via EFI.
# For more details, see:
# https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-work-group-platform-reset-attack-mitigation-specification/
# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532058
CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION=y

# This needs userspace support, and will break "regular" distros. See: https://github.com/tych0/huldufolk
CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER=y

# Dangerous; enabling this allows direct physical memory writing.
# CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD is not set

# Dangerous; enabling this disables brk ASLR.
# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set

# Dangerous; enabling this allows direct kernel memory writing.
# CONFIG_DEVKMEM is not set

# Dangerous; exposes kernel text image layout.
# CONFIG_PROC_KCORE is not set

# Dangerous; enabling this disables VDSO ASLR.
# CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is not set

# Dangerous; enabling this allows replacement of running kernel.
# CONFIG_KEXEC is not set

# Dangerous; enabling this allows replacement of running kernel.
# CONFIG_HIBERNATION is not set

# Prior to v4.1, assists heap memory attacks; best to keep interface disabled.
# CONFIG_INET_DIAG is not set

# Easily confused by misconfigured userspace, keep off.
# CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set

# Use the modern PTY interface (devpts) only.
# CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set

# Block TTY stuffing attacks (this will break screen readers, see "dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti" sysctl below).
# CONFIG_LEGACY_TIOCSTI is not set

# If SELinux can be disabled at runtime, the LSM structures cannot be read-only; keep off.
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE is not set

# Reboot devices immediately if kernel experiences an Oops.
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS=y
CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT=-1

# Limit sysrq to sync,unmount,reboot. For more details see the sysrq bit field table.
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE=176

# Keep root from altering kernel memory via loadable modules.
# CONFIG_MODULES is not set

# But if CONFIG_MODULE=y is needed, at least they must be signed with a per-build key.
# See also kernel.modules_disabled sysctl below.
CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH="sha512"
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY="certs/signing_key.pem"
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD is not set

# GCC plugins

# Enable GCC Plugins
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS=y

# Gather additional entropy at boot time for systems that may not have appropriate entropy sources.
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y

# Force all structures to be initialized before they are passed to other functions.
# When building with GCC:
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK=y
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL=y

# Wipe stack contents on syscall exit (reduces stale data lifetime in stack)
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK=y
# CONFIG_STACKLEAK_METRICS is not set
# CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE is not set

# Randomize the layout of system structures. This may have dramatic performance impact, so
# use with caution or also use CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT=y
# CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE is not set

# arm64

CONFIG_ARM64=y

# Disallow allocating the first 32k of memory (cannot be 64k due to ARM loader).
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=32768

# Randomize position of kernel (requires UEFI RNG or bootloader support for /chosen/kaslr-seed DT property).
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y

# Remove arm32 support to reduce syscall attack surface.
# CONFIG_COMPAT is not set

# Make sure PAN emulation is enabled.
CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN=y

# Enable Kernel Page Table Isolation to remove an entire class of cache timing side-channels.
CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0=y

# Enable Software Shadow Stack when hardware Pointer Authentication (PAC) isn't available.
CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK=y
CONFIG_UNWIND_PATCH_PAC_INTO_SCS=y

# Pointer authentication (ARMv8.3 and later). If hardware actually supports it, one can
# turn off CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG with this enabled.
CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH=y
CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH_KERNEL=y

# Available in ARMv8.5 and later.
CONFIG_ARM64_BTI=y
CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_ARM64_MTE=y
CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS=y
CONFIG_ARM64_E0PD=y

# Available in ARMv8.7 and later.
CONFIG_ARM64_EPAN=y

# Enable Control Flow Integrity
CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y
# CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE is not set