# Re: \[PATCH v26 02/12\] landlock: Add ruleset and domain management

- From: Jann Horn \<jannh@google.com\>
- Date: 2021-01-14 03:23:31 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2021/01/197317
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2020/12/195443/t.md

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:28 PM Mickaël Salaün [ref] wrote:
> A Landlock ruleset is mainly a red-black tree with Landlock rules as
> nodes.  This enables quick update and lookup to match a requested
> access, e.g. to a file.  A ruleset is usable through a dedicated file
> descriptor (cf. following commit implementing syscalls) which enables a
> process to create and populate a ruleset with new rules.
>
> A domain is a ruleset tied to a set of processes.  This group of rules
> defines the security policy enforced on these processes and their future
> children.  A domain can transition to a new domain which is the
> intersection of all its constraints and those of a ruleset provided by
> the current process.  This modification only impact the current process.
> This means that a process can only gain more constraints (i.e. lose
> accesses) over time.
>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <redacted>

Yeah, the layer stack stuff in this version looks good to me. :)

Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
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