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[PATCH 6/6] landlock: Document POSIX message queue scoping

From: Oxana Kharitonova <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-22 12:30:12
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Subsystem: documentation, landlock security module, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Mickaël Salaün, Linus Torvalds

Document LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE in the userspace API and UAPI
kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Oxana Kharitonova <redacted>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst |  6 ++++--
 Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst   | 11 ++++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/landlock.h              |  6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
index 8eb85c9381ff..1ecb2017271b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@ AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS
         - net.bind_udp - UDP port binding was denied
         - net.connect_send_udp - UDP connection and send was denied
 
-    **scope.*** - IPC scoping restrictions (ABI 6+):
+    **scope.*** - IPC scoping restrictions:
         - scope.abstract_unix_socket - Abstract UNIX socket connection denied
-        - scope.signal - Signal sending denied
+          (ABI 6+)
+        - scope.signal - Signal sending denied (ABI 6+)
+        - scope.posix_msg_queue - POSIX message queue opening denied (ABI 11+)
 
     Multiple blockers can appear in a single event (comma-separated) when
     multiple access rights are missing. For example, creating a regular file
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 5a63d4476c1c..c4fa84e6d281 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights.
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_SEND_UDP,
         .scoped =
             LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET |
-            LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL,
+            LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL |
+            LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE,
     };
 
 Because we may not know which kernel version an application will be executed
@@ -140,6 +141,10 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights:
         ruleset_attr.handled_access_net &=
             ~(LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_UDP |
               LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_SEND_UDP);
+        __attribute__((fallthrough));
+    case 10:
+        /* Removes LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE for ABI < 11 */
+        ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE;
     }
 
 This enables the creation of an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
@@ -420,6 +425,10 @@ The operations which can be scoped are:
     A :manpage:`sendto(2)` on a socket which was previously connected will not
     be restricted.  This works for both datagram and stream sockets.
 
+``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE``
+    This limits opening POSIX message queues to queues created by a process in
+    the same or a nested Landlock domain.
+
 IPC scoping does not support exceptions via :manpage:`landlock_add_rule(2)`.
 If an operation is scoped within a domain, no rules can be added to allow access
 to resources or processes outside of the scope.
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h b/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
index 96d0c3b423ac..21ba31ad4d4b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
@@ -478,7 +478,9 @@ struct landlock_net_port_attr {
  * Setting a flag for a ruleset will isolate the Landlock domain to forbid
  * connections to resources outside the domain.
  *
- * This is supported since Landlock ABI version 6.
+ * This is supported since Landlock ABI version 6.  The
+ * %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE scope is supported since Landlock ABI version
+ * 11.
  *
  * Scopes:
  *
@@ -487,6 +489,8 @@ struct landlock_net_port_attr {
  *   related Landlock domain (e.g., a parent domain or a non-sandboxed process).
  * - %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL: Restrict a sandboxed process from sending a signal
  *   to another process outside the domain.
+ * - %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE: Restrict a sandboxed process from opening
+ *   a POSIX message queue created outside the domain.
  */
 /* clang-format off */
 #define LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET		(1ULL << 0)
-- 
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