Question about using Landlock
Marek Küthe <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:27:07 +0000
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--Sig_/mzhwyBeOwpCCngJRl2Ur4bK 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_/mzhwyBeOwpCCngJRl2Ur4bK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEmqKBWfzrPNg7whIBfoaRRmmRCMcFAmkeNisACgkQfoaRRmmR CMd8lw//Z0hf6IR/FlsCWs1IthbhlaH6emTze4x1S900cUceOaEmmNFkp352Y/YF qs2Q5I4yLr+99UyM9Aw6UVG2u6dFHR06e+VZ8NG1Vpfbrl4u10R6sHof73UOm675 bXvFrK6Kg6DdsGmRu+6eqISvZsKFJ+5rOFyWkpfvJfcYUBNvP6O7B+TbYw6y4MSD HhF7CS/V1ULL/EugRwhijP/w9cszI+S8gyI7K4vUNZWTQkjVU9vwByTw5TAjnfcV 1FiFvF78HJRjZqycnCn46IBbzWtArA+AIdaTg/2vvpAToTyKIBNfsx2yhAr3nHkg 1w3h/V6+lIEBg7nSROjmuruil2vt1Je0wzm11O4c+cbvWCJo7GXl5E0EYjKos1xz HoYUbNa0ngm57EAREOksbQD9uhfW7ltJJHaBpuoY1y8nF6q5QgF7MBrO1O2SNxgM U+7Gh2KNHdzkm15DKZqF+yEgNac6tZm+ify4THgn0vjqDF+4tpcAlDbGmUVQHIwv Fb33Hr+TY5MKwmqlkMM/hEUfLZeiaMBUW56EYTtBipq3SeRswaItgH3ZrK9EyoC/ lcejJ5A0CsuFdcfer0XI555pJldwtNrPEmTIaDE73I5HrTp1n5S57no/teL/0WRU J4kY0YH7IYn4nmgCOtTqRuEx8tOvVa8eyG2TZxAlNFyv30mB/eI= =pb9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mzhwyBeOwpCCngJRl2Ur4bK--