The quietness behaviour is as documented in the previous patch.
For optional accesses, since the existing deny_masks can only store
2x4bit of layer index, with no way to represent "no layer", we need to
either expand it or have another field to correctly handle quieting of
those. This commit uses the latter approach - we add another field to
store which optional access (of the 2) are covered by quiet rules in
their respective layers as stored in deny_masks.
Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.8 copilot-review
Signed-off-by: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2510a357a94183683eefc49917dcb2240d67be96.1781228815.git.m@maowtm.org
[mic: Cosmetic fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Adds the UAPI for the quiet flags feature (but not the implementation
yet).
Even though currently LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_QUIET only affects audit
logging, in the future this can also be used as part of a supervisor
mechanism, where it will also suppress denial notifications on a
per-object basis. Thus the name is deliberately generic, as opposed to
e.g. LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_LOG_QUIET.
According to pahole, even after adding the struct access_masks
quiet_masks in struct landlock_hierarchy, the u32 log_* bitfield still
only has a size of 2 bytes, so there's minimal wasted space.
Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org>
[mic: Update date, fix comment formatting]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/031184748a8e74c0bb02f1fa13d7a3f10918c627.1781228815.git.m@maowtm.org
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
To avoid unnecessarily increasing the size of struct landlock_layer, we
make the layer level a u8 and use the space to store the flags struct.
struct layer_access_masks is renamed to struct layer_masks, and a new
field is added to track whether a quiet flag rule is seen for each
layer. Through use of bitfields, this does not increase the size of the
struct.
Cc: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.8 copilot-review
Signed-off-by: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org>
Co-developed-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/be3fec3927bc9faaacd4ce0e7f0d1ff5474e2210.1781228815.git.m@maowtm.org
[mic: Fix comment formatting]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Mark the kzalloc_flex() of struct landlock_details with
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so the allocation is charged to the calling task,
like the other Landlock per-domain allocations which have used
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT forever.
Every property of landlock_details is caller-attributable: allocated by
landlock_restrict_self(2), owned by the caller's landlock_hierarchy,
contents are the caller's pid, uid, comm, and exe_path, lifetime bounded
by the caller's domain. While the caller may not know nor control the
size of this allocation (i.e. exe_path), this data should still be
accounted for it.
The deciding factor is whether userspace can trigger the allocation, not
whether the size of the data is known nor controlled by the caller.
This aligns with the kmemcg accounting policy established by commit
5d097056c9 ("kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg").
No new failure modes: the hierarchy and ruleset are allocated before
details and are already accounted, so landlock_restrict_self(2) already
returns -ENOMEM under memcg pressure. This change widens that existing
failure window slightly; it does not introduce a new error code.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1d636984e0 ("landlock: Add AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN and log domain status")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513180309.165840-1-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
The layer masks data structure tracks the requested but unfulfilled
access rights during an operation's security check. It stores one bit
for each combination of access right and layer index. If the bit is
set, that access right is not granted (yet) in the given layer and we
have to traverse the path further upwards to grant it.
Previously, the layer masks were stored as arrays mapping from access
right indices to layer_mask_t. The layer_mask_t value then indicates
all layers in which the given access right is still (tentatively)
denied.
This patch introduces struct layer_access_masks instead: This struct
contains an array with the access_mask_t of each (tentatively) denied
access right in that layer.
The hypothesis of this patch is that this simplifies the code enough
so that the resulting code will run faster:
* We can use bitwise operations in multiple places where we previously
looped over bits individually with macros. (Should require less
branch speculation and lends itself to better loop unrolling.)
* Code is ~75 lines smaller.
Other noteworthy changes:
* In no_more_access(), call a new helper function may_refer(), which
only solves the asymmetric case. Previously, the code interleaved
the checks for the two symmetric cases in RENAME_EXCHANGE. It feels
that the code is clearer when renames without RENAME_EXCHANGE are
more obviously the normal case.
Tradeoffs:
This change improves performance, at a slight size increase to the
layer masks data structure.
This fixes the size of the data structure at 32 bytes for all types of
access rights. (64, once we introduce a 17th filesystem access right).
For filesystem access rights, at the moment, the data structure has
the same size as before, but once we introduce the 17th filesystem
access right, it will double in size (from 32 to 64 bytes), as
access_mask_t grows from 16 to 32 bit [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260120.haeCh4li9Vae@digikod.net/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260206151154.97915-5-gnoack3000@gmail.com
[mic: Cosmetic fixes, moved struct layer_access_masks definition]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
landlock_put_hierarchy() can be called when an error occurs in
landlock_merge_ruleset() due to insufficient memory. In this case, the
domain's audit details might not have been allocated yet, which would
cause landlock_free_hierarchy_details() to print a warning (but still
safely handle this case).
We could keep the WARN_ON_ONCE(!hierarchy) but it's not worth it for
this kind of function, so let's remove it entirely.
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+8bca99e91de7e060e4ea@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331104709.897062-1-mic@digikod.net
Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Most of the time we want to log denied access because they should not
happen and such information helps diagnose issues. However, when
sandboxing processes that we know will try to access denied resources
(e.g. unknown, bogus, or malicious binary), we might want to not log
related access requests that might fill up logs.
By default, denied requests are logged until the task call execve(2).
If the LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_SAME_EXEC_OFF flag is set, denied
requests will not be logged for the same executed file.
If the LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_NEW_EXEC_ON flag is set, denied
requests from after an execve(2) call will be logged.
The rationale is that a program should know its own behavior, but not
necessarily the behavior of other programs.
Because LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_SAME_EXEC_OFF is set for a specific
Landlock domain, it makes it possible to selectively mask some access
requests that would be logged by a parent domain, which might be handy
for unprivileged processes to limit logs. However, system
administrators should still use the audit filtering mechanism. There is
intentionally no audit nor sysctl configuration to re-enable these logs.
This is delegated to the user space program.
Increment the Landlock ABI version to reflect this interface change.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-18-mic@digikod.net
[mic: Rename variables and fix __maybe_unused]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Add audit support to the file_truncate and file_ioctl hooks.
Add a deny_masks_t type and related helpers to store the domain's layer
level per optional access rights (i.e. LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE and
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV) when opening a file, which cannot be
inferred later. In practice, the landlock_file_security aligned blob size is
still 16 bytes because this new one-byte deny_masks field follows the
existing two-bytes allowed_access field and precede the packed
fown_subject.
Implementing deny_masks_t with a bitfield instead of a struct enables a
generic implementation to store and extract layer levels.
Add KUnit tests to check the identification of a layer level from a
deny_masks_t, and the computation of a deny_masks_t from an access right
with its layer level or a layer_mask_t array.
Audit event sample:
type=LANDLOCK_DENY msg=audit(1729738800.349:44): domain=195ba459b blockers=fs.ioctl_dev path="/dev/tty" dev="devtmpfs" ino=9 ioctlcmd=0x5401
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-15-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Asynchronously log domain information when it first denies an access.
This minimize the amount of generated logs, which makes it possible to
always log denials for the current execution since they should not
happen. These records are identified with the new AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN
type.
The AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN message contains:
- the "domain" ID which is described;
- the "status" which can either be "allocated" or "deallocated";
- the "mode" which is for now only "enforcing";
- for the "allocated" status, a minimal set of properties to easily
identify the task that loaded the domain's policy with
landlock_restrict_self(2): "pid", "uid", executable path ("exe"), and
command line ("comm");
- for the "deallocated" state, the number of "denials" accounted to this
domain, which is at least 1.
This requires each domain to save these task properties at creation
time in the new struct landlock_details. A reference to the PID is kept
for the lifetime of the domain to avoid race conditions when
investigating the related task. The executable path is resolved and
stored to not keep a reference to the filesystem and block related
actions. All these metadata are stored for the lifetime of the related
domain and should then be minimal. The required memory is not accounted
to the task calling landlock_restrict_self(2) contrary to most other
Landlock allocations (see related comment).
The AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN record follows the first AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS
record for the same domain, which is always followed by AUDIT_SYSCALL
and AUDIT_PROCTITLE. This is in line with the audit logic to first
record the cause of an event, and then add context with other types of
record.
Audit event sample for a first denial:
type=LANDLOCK_ACCESS msg=audit(1732186800.349:44): domain=195ba459b blockers=ptrace opid=1 ocomm="systemd"
type=LANDLOCK_DOMAIN msg=audit(1732186800.349:44): domain=195ba459b status=allocated mode=enforcing pid=300 uid=0 exe="/root/sandboxer" comm="sandboxer"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1732186800.349:44): arch=c000003e syscall=101 success=no [...] pid=300 auid=0
Audit event sample for a following denial:
type=LANDLOCK_ACCESS msg=audit(1732186800.372:45): domain=195ba459b blockers=ptrace opid=1 ocomm="systemd"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1732186800.372:45): arch=c000003e syscall=101 success=no [...] pid=300 auid=0
Log domain deletion with the "deallocated" state when a domain was
previously logged. This makes it possible for log parsers to free
potential resources when a domain ID will never show again.
The number of denied access requests is useful to easily check how many
access requests a domain blocked and potentially if some of them are
missing in logs because of audit rate limiting, audit rules, or Landlock
log configuration flags (see following commit).
Audit event sample for a deletion of a domain that denied something:
type=LANDLOCK_DOMAIN msg=audit(1732186800.393:46): domain=195ba459b status=deallocated denials=2
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-11-mic@digikod.net
[mic: Update comment and GFP flag for landlock_log_drop_domain()]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Add a new AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS record type dedicated to an access
request denied by a Landlock domain. AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS indicates
that something unexpected happened.
For now, only denied access are logged, which means that any
AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS record is always followed by a SYSCALL record with
"success=no". However, log parsers should check this syscall property
because this is the only sign that a request was denied. Indeed, we
could have "success=yes" if Landlock would support a "permissive" mode.
We could also add a new field to AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN for this mode
(see following commit).
By default, the only logged access requests are those coming from the
same executed program that enforced the Landlock restriction on itself.
In other words, no audit record are created for a task after it called
execve(2). This is required to avoid log spam because programs may only
be aware of their own restrictions, but not the inherited ones.
Following commits will allow to conditionally generate
AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS records according to dedicated
landlock_restrict_self(2)'s flags.
The AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS message contains:
- the "domain" ID restricting the action on an object,
- the "blockers" that are missing to allow the requested access,
- a set of fields identifying the related object (e.g. task identified
with "opid" and "ocomm").
The blockers are implicit restrictions (e.g. ptrace), or explicit access
rights (e.g. filesystem), or explicit scopes (e.g. signal). This field
contains a list of at least one element, each separated with a comma.
The initial blocker is "ptrace", which describe all implicit Landlock
restrictions related to ptrace (e.g. deny tracing of tasks outside a
sandbox).
Add audit support to ptrace_access_check and ptrace_traceme hooks. For
the ptrace_access_check case, we log the current/parent domain and the
child task. For the ptrace_traceme case, we log the parent domain and
the current/child task. Indeed, the requester and the target are the
current task, but the action would be performed by the parent task.
Audit event sample:
type=LANDLOCK_ACCESS msg=audit(1729738800.349:44): domain=195ba459b blockers=ptrace opid=1 ocomm="systemd"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1729738800.349:44): arch=c000003e syscall=101 success=no [...] pid=300 auid=0
A following commit adds user documentation.
Add KUnit tests to check reading of domain ID relative to layer level.
The quick return for non-landlocked tasks is moved from task_ptrace() to
each LSM hooks.
It is not useful to inline the audit_enabled check because other
computation are performed by landlock_log_denial().
Use scoped guards for RCU read-side critical sections.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-10-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Create a new domain.h file containing the struct landlock_hierarchy
definition and helpers. This type will grow with audit support. This
also prepares for a new domain type.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-4-mic@digikod.net
Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
