[PATCH v3 6/6] Landlock: Document LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL
From: Tahera Fahimi <hidden>
Date: 2024-08-15 18:29:48
Also in:
linux-security-module, lkml
Subsystem:
documentation, landlock security module, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Mickaël Salaün, Linus Torvalds
Improving Landlock ABI version 6 to support signal scoping with LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL. Signed-off-by: Tahera Fahimi <redacted> --- v3: - update date --- Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 0582f93bd952..01e4d50851af 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Landlock: unprivileged access control ===================================== :Author: Mickaël Salaün -:Date: July 2024 +:Date: August 2024 The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global filesystem or network access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights. LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP, .scoped = - LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET, + LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET | + LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL, }; Because we may not know on which kernel version an application will be
@@ -123,7 +124,8 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights: ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV; case 5: /* Removes LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET for ABI < 6 */ - ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET; + ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~(LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET | + LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL); } This enables to create an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
@@ -319,11 +321,15 @@ interactions between sandboxes. Each Landlock domain can be explicitly scoped for a set of actions by specifying it on a ruleset. For example, if a sandboxed process should not be able to :manpage:`connect(2)` to a non-sandboxed process through abstract :manpage:`unix(7)` sockets, we can specify such restriction -with ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET``. +with ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET``. Moreover, if a sandboxed process +should not be able to send a signal to a non-sandboxed process, we can specify +this restriction with ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL``. A sandboxed process can connect to a non-sandboxed process when its domain is not scoped. If a process's domain is scoped, it can only connect to sockets -created by processes in the same scoped domain. +created by processes in the same scoped domain. Moreover, If a process is +scoped to send signal to a non-scoped process, it can only send signals to +processes in the same scoped domain. IPC scoping does not support Landlock rules, so if a domain is scoped, no rules can be added to allow accessing to a resource outside of the scoped domain.
@@ -563,12 +569,17 @@ earlier ABI. Starting with the Landlock ABI version 5, it is possible to restrict the use of :manpage:`ioctl(2)` using the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right. +<<<<<<< current Abstract UNIX sockets Restriction (ABI < 6) -------------------------------------------- +======= +Abstract Unix sockets and Signal Restriction (ABI < 6) +------------------------------------------------------- +>>>>>>> patched With ABI version 6, it is possible to restrict connection to an abstract Unix socket -through ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET``, thanks to the ``scoped`` ruleset -attribute. +through ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET`` and sending signal through +``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL``, thanks to the ``scoped`` ruleset attribute. .. _kernel_support:
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