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authorTahera Fahimi <fahimitahera@gmail.com>2024-09-04 18:14:02 -0600
committerMickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>2024-09-16 23:50:52 +0200
commitdba40c77003861b1b435de43101aaa05b769dda9 (patch)
treeba1e333200d0de3c732479106e3f38ca3cc0f068 /Documentation/userspace-api
parent369b48b43a09f995876bb2e88d78845eb2a80212 (diff)
landlock: Document LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET
Introduce LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET as an IPC scoping mechanism available since Landlock ABI version 6. Update ruleset_attr, Landlock ABI version, and access rights code blocks based on that. Signed-off-by: Tahera Fahimi <fahimitahera@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac75151861724c19ed62b500cfe497612d9a6607.1725494372.git.fahimitahera@gmail.com [mic: Improve commit message and documentation, add a missing fallthrough, reformat to 80 columns, improve some wording] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst44
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 37dafce8038b..2d38e6d273f3 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: September 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
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights.
.handled_access_net =
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP |
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP,
+ .scoped =
+ LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET,
};
Because we may not know on which kernel version an application will be
@@ -119,6 +121,10 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights:
case 4:
/* Removes LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV for ABI < 5 */
ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV;
+ __attribute__((fallthrough));
+ case 5:
+ /* Removes LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET for ABI < 6 */
+ ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET;
}
This enables to create an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
@@ -306,6 +312,33 @@ To be allowed to use :manpage:`ptrace(2)` and related syscalls on a target
process, a sandboxed process should have a subset of the target process rules,
which means the tracee must be in a sub-domain of the tracer.
+IPC scoping
+-----------
+
+Similar to the implicit `Ptrace restrictions`_, we may want to further restrict
+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_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET``.
+
+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 scope.
+
+A connected datagram socket behaves like a stream socket when its domain is
+scoped, meaning if the domain is scoped after the socket is connected , it can
+still :manpage:`send(2)` data just like a stream socket. However, in the same
+scenario, a non-connected datagram socket cannot send data (with
+:manpage:`sendto(2)`) outside its scope.
+
+A process with a scoped domain can inherit a socket created by a non-scoped
+process. The process cannot connect to this socket since it has a scoped
+domain.
+
+IPC scoping does not support exceptions, so if a domain is scoped, no rules can
+be added to allow access to resources or processes outside of the scope.
+
Truncating files
----------------
@@ -404,7 +437,7 @@ Access rights
-------------
.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
- :identifiers: fs_access net_access
+ :identifiers: fs_access net_access scope
Creating a new ruleset
----------------------
@@ -541,6 +574,13 @@ 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.
+Abstract UNIX socket scoping (ABI < 6)
+--------------------------------------
+
+Starting with the Landlock ABI version 6, it is possible to restrict
+connections to an abstract :manpage:`unix(7)` socket by setting
+``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET`` to the ``scoped`` ruleset attribute.
+
.. _kernel_support:
Kernel support