Question about using Landlock
Marek Küthe <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:19:37 +0000
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--Sig_/othNkk7hQ9GIp7C7o8luXcX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I would like to use Landlock in my program to improve security under Linux. I have a few questions about this: 1. The documentation uses the Landlock functions without syscall. [1] For example, `landlock_create_ruleset` instead of `int syscall(SYS_landlock_create_ruleset, ...)`. In which header file are these landlock_* functions declared? My compiler says it cannot find them. As a workaround, I currently check whether these functions exist when configuring the project [2], and if not, I create them [3]. However, this workaround also has problems: syscall returns a long and the Landlock functions return int, which means I have to perform a conversion, but there is a possible loss of information from long to int. 2. I don't quite understand how to add rules to Lockland's rule set. When accessing the file system, I'm supposed to specify the fd of the file, but then I already have that file open. And that's exactly what Lockland is supposed to control. Another problem is that I work with several libraries: for example, `yaml-cpp` to read my configuration file, `libtuntap` to create a TAP device, and boost.asio to read and write from this TAP device. These libraries create files without me controlling this with my own syscall. How could I integrate Lockland there? For example, I create the TAP device (before Lockland controls it) and then try to restrict access with Lockland. [4] However, I am unsure whether I am using Lockland correctly. ``` tun_tap dev(config.get_device_name(), tun_tap_mode::tap); [...] landlock_ruleset_loop.add_path_beneath_rule(LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_FILE | LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV, dev.native_handler()); landlock_ruleset_loop.restrict_self(); [...] const Crazytrace ct(io.get_executor(), ::dup(dev.native_handler()), nodecontainer); io.run(); ``` 3. Lockland introduces scoped access control starting with ABI 6. To avoid getting warnings from the compiler (and linter), I need to know whether the struct landlock_ruleset_attr has scoped access control or not when programming. Since I only want to support the case where this is true, I would like to check the ABI version at compile time and generate a more meaningful error. How can I check the ABI version at compile time? Is there a macro for this? Currently, I am using a check to see if the compiler can compile the struct with `scoped`. [5] However, I don't think this is very elegant. I hope it's okay for me, as a landlocked newbie, to ask questions like this here. In any case, I would really appreciate any answers! Best regards, Marek K=C3=BCthe [1] https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/landlock.html [2] https://codeberg.org/mark22k/crazytrace/src/commit/c9b3a0e51fadece1228f1f92= 522dccf0115df84d/meson.build#L101 [3] https://codeberg.org/mark22k/crazytrace/src/commit/c9b3a0e51fadece1228f1f92= 522dccf0115df84d/src/landlock.hpp#L14 [4] https://codeberg.org/mark22k/crazytrace/src/commit/c9b3a0e51fadece1228f1f92= 522dccf0115df84d/src/main.cpp#L163 [5] https://codeberg.org/mark22k/crazytrace/src/commit/2580137d0d57b7261bd0e22e= 11853e9e75c2c2a7/meson.build#L122 --=20 Marek K=C3=BCthe [email protected] er/ihm he/him --Sig_/othNkk7hQ9GIp7C7o8luXcX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEmqKBWfzrPNg7whIBfoaRRmmRCMcFAmkeNGkACgkQfoaRRmmR CMcqZg/+LopRDXWziRPm8iPFgdkgFjs+/i/RRMazqX27QLIuidt06NO0Xogjmus+ HExfw+IWetMjbmCROQme4qj7LFLu7meYWZLnyMflqjqu7Xe1o6W53Xt0xQ9uP/Li VTKWTMK7BfEWTd0LWL6stykJrwyRiHXBXQSQFKp+u9r3LqcIdFGIfAPSaoT0xxh0 Kzxo0QRv9jdh3KTdHx5dwl1/idLgAKgwrHHL1xS6lE60Vc1VA/GSn6/AhzSTYnRz KLfqNEwHjy4nlP0tekLg/4Uh/y8VU52NyaD5QSsLvDcuCmgm43Th0KNncz/hBdC4 CUN2wxoMzNsXbHkxcg4yjC5rJHgtzGsNWqF3o/igo+yH6m6+Q8iEM6ocNx271I7l ImR/Et+Rn59a8Fx46c57aOEuuBuO38K8MW534vP0pVr6R1T3zeW989S+Ydlp0D4O y3XJykx9K3l84EybsNWdnAh6xoBBRA4KXCrWFEFJNIYX8TK8o4b8pmRAOKW+dB9V 2perdiMxTJ09PKSGWRPq5l2cJCPhPJPbH2ZE4rri9qzzqtzNnRBDWhQwkUXFFo6L jo5ecFVRcQRW1bVcqF/0TjD0+ZR92ulziDwjjvq2cw7nlaFSo6uGNPs4OsIggW7g HqLos2c7pkXSOtJWqC3bjVNwEhr8K39VpWly9MOIXZj8vyyPVn8= =T3fZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/othNkk7hQ9GIp7C7o8luXcX--