Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2025-03-03

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] landlock.7: Update description of Landlock rules

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-02-28 21:31:14
Also in: linux-security-module

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:29:10PM +0100, Günther Noack wrote:
This brings it up to date with the wording in the kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
I'd like some more justification in the commit message.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 man/man7/landlock.7 | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man7/landlock.7 b/man/man7/landlock.7
index c6b7272ea..11f76b072 100644
--- a/man/man7/landlock.7
+++ b/man/man7/landlock.7
@@ -39,13 +39,25 @@ the running kernel must support Landlock and
 it must be enabled at boot time.
 .\"
 .SS Landlock rules
-A Landlock rule describes an action on an object.
-An object is currently a file hierarchy,
-and the related filesystem actions are defined with access rights (see
-.BR landlock_add_rule (2)).
+A Landlock rule describes an action on an object
+which the process intends to perform.
 A set of rules is aggregated in a ruleset,
 which can then restrict the thread enforcing it,
 and its future children.
+.P
+The two existing types of rules are:
+.P
This will trigger a diagnostic due to being redundant before TP.

(Both P and TP are paragraphing macros, so you're theoretically creating
 an empty paragraph, which is just ignored by groff(1).)
+.TP
+.B Filesystem rules
+For these rules, the object is a file hierarchy,
+and the related filesystem actions are defined with
+.IR "filesystem access rights" .
+.TP
+.B Network rules (since ABI v4)
Most of the pages use Roman for the parenthetical:

	$ grep -rn 'BR.*(since' | sort -R | head
	man7/ip.7:782:.BR IP_PKTINFO " (since Linux 2.2)"
	man2/set_mempolicy.2:109:.BR MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES " (since Linux 2.6.26)"
	man2/kexec_load.2:60:.BR KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT " (since Linux 2.6.27)"
	man2/perf_event_open.2:823:.BR PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER " (since Linux 3.7)"
	man2/perf_event_open.2:1522:.BR PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND " (since Linux 3.16)"
	man7/socket.7:998:.BR SO_TIMESTAMPNS " (since Linux 2.6.22)"
	man2/perf_event_open.2:1537:.BR PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK " (since Linux 4.1)"
	man2/clone.2:1303:.BR EINVAL " (since Linux 3.9)"
	man2/eventfd.2:52:.BR EFD_NONBLOCK " (since Linux 2.6.27)"
	man2/perf_event_open.2:912:.BR PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP " (since Linux 5.7)"
+For these rules, the object is a TCP port,
+and the related actions are defined with
+.IR "network access rights" .
+.BR landlock_add_rule (2)).
Cheers,
Alex

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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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