From 5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:24:12 -0800 Subject: Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. Protocols: - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB). - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range on socket by socket basis. - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used. - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path manager. - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4). - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986). - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters. - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154. - Remove static WEP support. - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate reporting. - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP). BPF: - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure" precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type. - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and timestamp metadata. - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect metadata. - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks. - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and bpf_trace_vprintk helpers. - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case. - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by livepatch and BPF. - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in different time intervals. - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64. - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC. - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs. - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF memory accounting for container environments. Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ... --- Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 500 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 500 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d8cd8cd9c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst @@ -0,0 +1,500 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. Copyright © 2017-2020 Mickaël Salaün +.. Copyright © 2019-2020 ANSSI +.. Copyright © 2021-2022 Microsoft Corporation + +===================================== +Landlock: unprivileged access control +===================================== + +:Author: Mickaël Salaün +:Date: October 2022 + +The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global +filesystem access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock is a stackable +LSM, it makes possible to create safe security sandboxes as new security layers +in addition to the existing system-wide access-controls. This kind of sandbox +is expected to help mitigate the security impact of bugs or +unexpected/malicious behaviors in user space applications. Landlock empowers +any process, including unprivileged ones, to securely restrict themselves. + +We can quickly make sure that Landlock is enabled in the running system by +looking for "landlock: Up and running" in kernel logs (as root): ``dmesg | grep +landlock || journalctl -kg landlock`` . Developers can also easily check for +Landlock support with a :ref:`related system call `. If +Landlock is not currently supported, we need to :ref:`configure the kernel +appropriately `. + +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`_. A set of rules is aggregated in a ruleset, which can then restrict +the thread enforcing it, and its future children. + +Defining and enforcing a security policy +---------------------------------------- + +We first need to define the ruleset that will contain our rules. For this +example, the ruleset will contain rules that only allow read actions, but write +actions will be denied. The ruleset then needs to handle both of these kind of +actions. This is required for backward and forward compatibility (i.e. the +kernel and user space may not know each other's supported restrictions), hence +the need to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights. + +.. code-block:: c + + struct landlock_ruleset_attr ruleset_attr = { + .handled_access_fs = + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_EXECUTE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_FILE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_DIR | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REMOVE_DIR | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REMOVE_FILE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_CHAR | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_DIR | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_REG | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SOCK | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_FIFO | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_BLOCK | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SYM | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE, + }; + +Because we may not know on which kernel version an application will be +executed, it is safer to follow a best-effort security approach. Indeed, we +should try to protect users as much as possible whatever the kernel they are +using. To avoid binary enforcement (i.e. either all security features or +none), we can leverage a dedicated Landlock command to get the current version +of the Landlock ABI and adapt the handled accesses. Let's check if we should +remove the ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER`` or ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` +access rights, which are only supported starting with the second and third +version of the ABI. + +.. code-block:: c + + int abi; + + abi = landlock_create_ruleset(NULL, 0, LANDLOCK_CREATE_RULESET_VERSION); + if (abi < 0) { + /* Degrades gracefully if Landlock is not handled. */ + perror("The running kernel does not enable to use Landlock"); + return 0; + } + switch (abi) { + case 1: + /* Removes LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER for ABI < 2 */ + ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER; + __attribute__((fallthrough)); + case 2: + /* Removes LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE for ABI < 3 */ + ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE; + } + +This enables to create an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules. + +.. code-block:: c + + int ruleset_fd; + + ruleset_fd = landlock_create_ruleset(&ruleset_attr, sizeof(ruleset_attr), 0); + if (ruleset_fd < 0) { + perror("Failed to create a ruleset"); + return 1; + } + +We can now add a new rule to this ruleset thanks to the returned file +descriptor referring to this ruleset. The rule will only allow reading the +file hierarchy ``/usr``. Without another rule, write actions would then be +denied by the ruleset. To add ``/usr`` to the ruleset, we open it with the +``O_PATH`` flag and fill the &struct landlock_path_beneath_attr with this file +descriptor. + +.. code-block:: c + + int err; + struct landlock_path_beneath_attr path_beneath = { + .allowed_access = + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_EXECUTE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_FILE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_DIR, + }; + + path_beneath.parent_fd = open("/usr", O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC); + if (path_beneath.parent_fd < 0) { + perror("Failed to open file"); + close(ruleset_fd); + return 1; + } + err = landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd, LANDLOCK_RULE_PATH_BENEATH, + &path_beneath, 0); + close(path_beneath.parent_fd); + if (err) { + perror("Failed to update ruleset"); + close(ruleset_fd); + return 1; + } + +It may also be required to create rules following the same logic as explained +for the ruleset creation, by filtering access rights according to the Landlock +ABI version. In this example, this is not required because all of the requested +``allowed_access`` rights are already available in ABI 1. + +We now have a ruleset with one rule allowing read access to ``/usr`` while +denying all other handled accesses for the filesystem. The next step is to +restrict the current thread from gaining more privileges (e.g. thanks to a SUID +binary). + +.. code-block:: c + + if (prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0)) { + perror("Failed to restrict privileges"); + close(ruleset_fd); + return 1; + } + +The current thread is now ready to sandbox itself with the ruleset. + +.. code-block:: c + + if (landlock_restrict_self(ruleset_fd, 0)) { + perror("Failed to enforce ruleset"); + close(ruleset_fd); + return 1; + } + close(ruleset_fd); + +If the ``landlock_restrict_self`` system call succeeds, the current thread is +now restricted and this policy will be enforced on all its subsequently created +children as well. Once a thread is landlocked, there is no way to remove its +security policy; only adding more restrictions is allowed. These threads are +now in a new Landlock domain, merge of their parent one (if any) with the new +ruleset. + +Full working code can be found in `samples/landlock/sandboxer.c`_. + +Good practices +-------------- + +It is recommended setting access rights to file hierarchy leaves as much as +possible. For instance, it is better to be able to have ``~/doc/`` as a +read-only hierarchy and ``~/tmp/`` as a read-write hierarchy, compared to +``~/`` as a read-only hierarchy and ``~/tmp/`` as a read-write hierarchy. +Following this good practice leads to self-sufficient hierarchies that do not +depend on their location (i.e. parent directories). This is particularly +relevant when we want to allow linking or renaming. Indeed, having consistent +access rights per directory enables to change the location of such directory +without relying on the destination directory access rights (except those that +are required for this operation, see ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER`` +documentation). +Having self-sufficient hierarchies also helps to tighten the required access +rights to the minimal set of data. This also helps avoid sinkhole directories, +i.e. directories where data can be linked to but not linked from. However, +this depends on data organization, which might not be controlled by developers. +In this case, granting read-write access to ``~/tmp/``, instead of write-only +access, would potentially allow to move ``~/tmp/`` to a non-readable directory +and still keep the ability to list the content of ``~/tmp/``. + +Layers of file path access rights +--------------------------------- + +Each time a thread enforces a ruleset on itself, it updates its Landlock domain +with a new layer of policy. Indeed, this complementary policy is stacked with +the potentially other rulesets already restricting this thread. A sandboxed +thread can then safely add more constraints to itself with a new enforced +ruleset. + +One policy layer grants access to a file path if at least one of its rules +encountered on the path grants the access. A sandboxed thread can only access +a file path if all its enforced policy layers grant the access as well as all +the other system access controls (e.g. filesystem DAC, other LSM policies, +etc.). + +Bind mounts and OverlayFS +------------------------- + +Landlock enables to restrict access to file hierarchies, which means that these +access rights can be propagated with bind mounts (cf. +Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.rst) but not with +Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst. + +A bind mount mirrors a source file hierarchy to a destination. The destination +hierarchy is then composed of the exact same files, on which Landlock rules can +be tied, either via the source or the destination path. These rules restrict +access when they are encountered on a path, which means that they can restrict +access to multiple file hierarchies at the same time, whether these hierarchies +are the result of bind mounts or not. + +An OverlayFS mount point consists of upper and lower layers. These layers are +combined in a merge directory, result of the mount point. This merge hierarchy +may include files from the upper and lower layers, but modifications performed +on the merge hierarchy only reflects on the upper layer. From a Landlock +policy point of view, each OverlayFS layers and merge hierarchies are +standalone and contains their own set of files and directories, which is +different from bind mounts. A policy restricting an OverlayFS layer will not +restrict the resulted merged hierarchy, and vice versa. Landlock users should +then only think about file hierarchies they want to allow access to, regardless +of the underlying filesystem. + +Inheritance +----------- + +Every new thread resulting from a :manpage:`clone(2)` inherits Landlock domain +restrictions from its parent. This is similar to the seccomp inheritance (cf. +Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst) or any other LSM dealing with +task's :manpage:`credentials(7)`. For instance, one process's thread may apply +Landlock rules to itself, but they will not be automatically applied to other +sibling threads (unlike POSIX thread credential changes, cf. +:manpage:`nptl(7)`). + +When a thread sandboxes itself, we have the guarantee that the related security +policy will stay enforced on all this thread's descendants. This allows +creating standalone and modular security policies per application, which will +automatically be composed between themselves according to their runtime parent +policies. + +Ptrace restrictions +------------------- + +A sandboxed process has less privileges than a non-sandboxed process and must +then be subject to additional restrictions when manipulating another process. +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. + +Truncating files +---------------- + +The operations covered by ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE`` and +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` both change the contents of a file and sometimes +overlap in non-intuitive ways. It is recommended to always specify both of +these together. + +A particularly surprising example is :manpage:`creat(2)`. The name suggests +that this system call requires the rights to create and write files. However, +it also requires the truncate right if an existing file under the same name is +already present. + +It should also be noted that truncating files does not require the +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE`` right. Apart from the :manpage:`truncate(2)` +system call, this can also be done through :manpage:`open(2)` with the flags +``O_RDONLY | O_TRUNC``. + +When opening a file, the availability of the ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` +right is associated with the newly created file descriptor and will be used for +subsequent truncation attempts using :manpage:`ftruncate(2)`. The behavior is +similar to opening a file for reading or writing, where permissions are checked +during :manpage:`open(2)`, but not during the subsequent :manpage:`read(2)` and +:manpage:`write(2)` calls. + +As a consequence, it is possible to have multiple open file descriptors for the +same file, where one grants the right to truncate the file and the other does +not. It is also possible to pass such file descriptors between processes, +keeping their Landlock properties, even when these processes do not have an +enforced Landlock ruleset. + +Compatibility +============= + +Backward and forward compatibility +---------------------------------- + +Landlock is designed to be compatible with past and future versions of the +kernel. This is achieved thanks to the system call attributes and the +associated bitflags, particularly the ruleset's ``handled_access_fs``. Making +handled access right explicit enables the kernel and user space to have a clear +contract with each other. This is required to make sure sandboxing will not +get stricter with a system update, which could break applications. + +Developers can subscribe to the `Landlock mailing list +`_ to knowingly update and +test their applications with the latest available features. In the interest of +users, and because they may use different kernel versions, it is strongly +encouraged to follow a best-effort security approach by checking the Landlock +ABI version at runtime and only enforcing the supported features. + +.. _landlock_abi_versions: + +Landlock ABI versions +--------------------- + +The Landlock ABI version can be read with the sys_landlock_create_ruleset() +system call: + +.. code-block:: c + + int abi; + + abi = landlock_create_ruleset(NULL, 0, LANDLOCK_CREATE_RULESET_VERSION); + if (abi < 0) { + switch (errno) { + case ENOSYS: + printf("Landlock is not supported by the current kernel.\n"); + break; + case EOPNOTSUPP: + printf("Landlock is currently disabled.\n"); + break; + } + return 0; + } + if (abi >= 2) { + printf("Landlock supports LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER.\n"); + } + +The following kernel interfaces are implicitly supported by the first ABI +version. Features only supported from a specific version are explicitly marked +as such. + +Kernel interface +================ + +Access rights +------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h + :identifiers: fs_access + +Creating a new ruleset +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/landlock/syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_landlock_create_ruleset + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h + :identifiers: landlock_ruleset_attr + +Extending a ruleset +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/landlock/syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_landlock_add_rule + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h + :identifiers: landlock_rule_type landlock_path_beneath_attr + +Enforcing a ruleset +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/landlock/syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_landlock_restrict_self + +Current limitations +=================== + +Filesystem topology modification +-------------------------------- + +As for file renaming and linking, a sandboxed thread cannot modify its +filesystem topology, whether via :manpage:`mount(2)` or +:manpage:`pivot_root(2)`. However, :manpage:`chroot(2)` calls are not denied. + +Special filesystems +------------------- + +Access to regular files and directories can be restricted by Landlock, +according to the handled accesses of a ruleset. However, files that do not +come from a user-visible filesystem (e.g. pipe, socket), but can still be +accessed through ``/proc//fd/*``, cannot currently be explicitly +restricted. Likewise, some special kernel filesystems such as nsfs, which can +be accessed through ``/proc//ns/*``, cannot currently be explicitly +restricted. However, thanks to the `ptrace restrictions`_, access to such +sensitive ``/proc`` files are automatically restricted according to domain +hierarchies. Future Landlock evolutions could still enable to explicitly +restrict such paths with dedicated ruleset flags. + +Ruleset layers +-------------- + +There is a limit of 16 layers of stacked rulesets. This can be an issue for a +task willing to enforce a new ruleset in complement to its 16 inherited +rulesets. Once this limit is reached, sys_landlock_restrict_self() returns +E2BIG. It is then strongly suggested to carefully build rulesets once in the +life of a thread, especially for applications able to launch other applications +that may also want to sandbox themselves (e.g. shells, container managers, +etc.). + +Memory usage +------------ + +Kernel memory allocated to create rulesets is accounted and can be restricted +by the Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst. + +Previous limitations +==================== + +File renaming and linking (ABI < 2) +----------------------------------- + +Because Landlock targets unprivileged access controls, it needs to properly +handle composition of rules. Such property also implies rules nesting. +Properly handling multiple layers of rulesets, each one of them able to +restrict access to files, also implies inheritance of the ruleset restrictions +from a parent to its hierarchy. Because files are identified and restricted by +their hierarchy, moving or linking a file from one directory to another implies +propagation of the hierarchy constraints, or restriction of these actions +according to the potentially lost constraints. To protect against privilege +escalations through renaming or linking, and for the sake of simplicity, +Landlock previously limited linking and renaming to the same directory. +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 2, it is now possible to securely +control renaming and linking thanks to the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER`` +access right. + +File truncation (ABI < 3) +------------------------- + +File truncation could not be denied before the third Landlock ABI, so it is +always allowed when using a kernel that only supports the first or second ABI. + +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 3, it is now possible to securely control +truncation thanks to the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` access right. + +.. _kernel_support: + +Kernel support +============== + +Landlock was first introduced in Linux 5.13 but it must be configured at build +time with ``CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=y``. Landlock must also be enabled at boot +time as the other security modules. The list of security modules enabled by +default is set with ``CONFIG_LSM``. The kernel configuration should then +contains ``CONFIG_LSM=landlock,[...]`` with ``[...]`` as the list of other +potentially useful security modules for the running system (see the +``CONFIG_LSM`` help). + +If the running kernel does not have ``landlock`` in ``CONFIG_LSM``, then we can +still enable it by adding ``lsm=landlock,[...]`` to +Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst thanks to the bootloader +configuration. + +Questions and answers +===================== + +What about user space sandbox managers? +--------------------------------------- + +Using user space process to enforce restrictions on kernel resources can lead +to race conditions or inconsistent evaluations (i.e. `Incorrect mirroring of +the OS code and state +`_). + +What about namespaces and containers? +------------------------------------- + +Namespaces can help create sandboxes but they are not designed for +access-control and then miss useful features for such use case (e.g. no +fine-grained restrictions). Moreover, their complexity can lead to security +issues, especially when untrusted processes can manipulate them (cf. +`Controlling access to user namespaces `_). + +Additional documentation +======================== + +* Documentation/security/landlock.rst +* https://landlock.io + +.. Links +.. _samples/landlock/sandboxer.c: + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/samples/landlock/sandboxer.c -- cgit v1.2.3