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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst index 9dd636aaa829..1d0c2c15c22e 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ Landlock: unprivileged access control ===================================== :Author: Mickaël Salaün -:Date: October 2023 +:Date: March 2025 -The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global +The goal of Landlock is to enable restriction of ambient rights (e.g. global filesystem or network 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 +is a stackable LSM, it makes it 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. @@ -76,19 +76,23 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights. LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_BLOCK | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SYM | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER | - LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE, + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE | + LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV, .handled_access_net = LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP, + .scoped = + LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET | + LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL, }; -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 +Because we may not know which kernel version an application will be executed +on, 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 access rights which are only supported in higher versions of the ABI. +using. + +To be compatible with older Linux versions, we detect the available Landlock ABI +version, and only use the available subset of access rights: .. code-block:: c @@ -114,9 +118,18 @@ remove access rights which are only supported in higher versions of the ABI. ruleset_attr.handled_access_net &= ~(LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP); + __attribute__((fallthrough)); + 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_* for ABI < 6 */ + ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~(LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET | + LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL); } -This enables to create an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules. +This enables the creation of an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules. .. code-block:: c @@ -206,41 +219,41 @@ 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. +now in a new Landlock domain, which is a merger 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 +It is recommended to set 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 +access rights per directory enables changing the location of such directories 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, +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 +access, would potentially allow moving ``~/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. +with a new layer of policy. This complementary policy is stacked with any +other rulesets potentially 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 @@ -251,7 +264,7 @@ etc.). Bind mounts and OverlayFS ------------------------- -Landlock enables to restrict access to file hierarchies, which means that these +Landlock enables restricting 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. @@ -264,21 +277,21 @@ 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. +combined in a merge directory, and that merged directory becomes available at +the mount point. This merge hierarchy may include files from the upper and +lower layers, but modifications performed on the merge hierarchy only reflect +on the upper layer. From a Landlock policy point of view, all OverlayFS layers +and merge hierarchies are standalone and each 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. +restrictions from its parent. This is similar to 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 @@ -297,8 +310,39 @@ 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. +process, a sandboxed process should have a superset of the target process's +access rights, 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. Therefore, at ruleset creation time, each +Landlock domain can restrict the scope for certain operations, so that these +operations can only reach out to processes within the same Landlock domain or in +a nested Landlock domain (the "scope"). + +The operations which can be scoped are: + +``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL`` + This limits the sending of signals to target processes which run within the + same or a nested Landlock domain. + +``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET`` + This limits the set of abstract :manpage:`unix(7)` sockets to which we can + :manpage:`connect(2)` to socket addresses which were created by a process in + the same or a nested Landlock domain. + + A :manpage:`sendto(2)` on a non-connected datagram socket is treated as if + it were doing an implicit :manpage:`connect(2)` and will be blocked if the + remote end does not stem from the same or a nested Landlock domain. + + A :manpage:`sendto(2)` on a socket which was previously connected will not + be restricted. This works for both datagram and stream sockets. + +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. Truncating files ---------------- @@ -318,18 +362,26 @@ It should also be noted that truncating files does not require the 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 +The truncate right is associated with the opened file (see below). + +Rights associated with file descriptors +--------------------------------------- + +When opening a file, the availability of the ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` and +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` rights is associated with the newly created +file descriptor and will be used for subsequent truncation and ioctl attempts +using :manpage:`ftruncate(2)` and :manpage:`ioctl(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. +As a consequence, it is possible that a process has multiple open file +descriptors referring to the same file, but Landlock enforces different things +when operating with these file descriptors. This can happen when a Landlock +ruleset gets enforced and the process keeps file descriptors which were opened +both before and after the enforcement. It is also possible to pass such file +descriptors between processes, keeping their Landlock properties, even when some +of the involved processes do not have an enforced Landlock ruleset. Compatibility ============= @@ -340,7 +392,7 @@ 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 +handled access rights 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. @@ -390,7 +442,7 @@ Access rights ------------- .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h - :identifiers: fs_access net_access + :identifiers: fs_access net_access scope Creating a new ruleset ---------------------- @@ -458,6 +510,28 @@ Memory usage Kernel memory allocated to create rulesets is accounted and can be restricted by the Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst. +IOCTL support +------------- + +The ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right restricts the use of +:manpage:`ioctl(2)`, but it only applies to *newly opened* device files. This +means specifically that pre-existing file descriptors like stdin, stdout and +stderr are unaffected. + +Users should be aware that TTY devices have traditionally permitted to control +other processes on the same TTY through the ``TIOCSTI`` and ``TIOCLINUX`` IOCTL +commands. Both of these require ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN`` on modern Linux systems, but +the behavior is configurable for ``TIOCSTI``. + +On older systems, it is therefore recommended to close inherited TTY file +descriptors, or to reopen them from ``/proc/self/fd/*`` without the +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right, if possible. + +Landlock's IOCTL support is coarse-grained at the moment, but may become more +fine-grained in the future. Until then, users are advised to establish the +guarantees that they need through the file hierarchy, by only allowing the +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right on files where it is really required. + Previous limitations ==================== @@ -487,14 +561,49 @@ 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. -Network support (ABI < 4) -------------------------- +TCP bind and connect (ABI < 4) +------------------------------ Starting with the Landlock ABI version 4, it is now possible to restrict TCP bind and connect actions to only a set of allowed ports thanks to the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP`` and ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP`` access rights. +Device IOCTL (ABI < 5) +---------------------- + +IOCTL operations could not be denied before the fifth Landlock ABI, so +:manpage:`ioctl(2)` is always allowed when using a kernel that only supports an +earlier ABI. + +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 5, it is possible to restrict the use of +:manpage:`ioctl(2)` on character and block devices using the new +``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right. + +Abstract UNIX socket (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. + +Signal (ABI < 6) +---------------- + +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 6, it is possible to restrict +:manpage:`signal(7)` sending by setting ``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL`` to the +``scoped`` ruleset attribute. + +Logging (ABI < 7) +----------------- + +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 7, it is possible to control logging of +Landlock audit events with the ``LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_SAME_EXEC_OFF``, +``LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_NEW_EXEC_ON``, and +``LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF`` flags passed to +sys_landlock_restrict_self(). See Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst +for more details on audit. + .. _kernel_support: Kernel support @@ -505,9 +614,9 @@ Build time configuration 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 +time like 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 +contain ``CONFIG_LSM=landlock,[...]`` with ``[...]`` as the list of other potentially useful security modules for the running system (see the ``CONFIG_LSM`` help). @@ -569,7 +678,7 @@ Questions and answers What about user space sandbox managers? --------------------------------------- -Using user space process to enforce restrictions on kernel resources can lead +Using user space processes to enforce restrictions on kernel resources can lead to race conditions or inconsistent evaluations (i.e. `Incorrect mirroring of the OS code and state <https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2003/traps-and-pitfalls-practical-problems-system-call-interposition-based-security-tools/>`_). @@ -583,9 +692,16 @@ fine-grained restrictions). Moreover, their complexity can lead to security issues, especially when untrusted processes can manipulate them (cf. `Controlling access to user namespaces <https://lwn.net/Articles/673597/>`_). +How to disable Landlock audit records? +-------------------------------------- + +You might want to put in place filters as explained here: +Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst + Additional documentation ======================== +* Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst * Documentation/security/landlock.rst * https://landlock.io |