Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] documentation/landlock: Adding scoping mechanism documentation

Mickaël Salaün <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-security-module,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 10:15:22PM -0600, Tahera Fahimi wrote:
> - Defining ABI version 6 that supports IPC restriction.
> - Adding "scoped" to the "Access rights".
> - In current limitation, unnamed sockets are specified as
>   sockets that are not restricted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tahera Fahimi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> index 07b63aec56fa..61b91cc03560 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Landlock: unprivileged access control
>  =====================================
>  
>  :Author: Mickaël Salaün
> -:Date: April 2024
> +:Date: July 2024
>  
>  The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global
>  filesystem or network access) for a set of processes.  Because Landlock
> @@ -306,6 +306,16 @@ 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.
>  
> +IPC Scoping
> +-----------
> +
> +Similar to Ptrace, a sandboxed process should not be able to access the resources
> +(like abstract unix sockets, or signals) outside of the sandbox domain. For example,
> +a sandboxed process should not be able to :manpage:`connect(2)` to a non-sandboxed
> +process through abstract unix sockets (:manpage:`unix(7)`). This restriction is
> +applicable by optionally specifying ``LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET`` in
> +the ruleset.
> +
>  Truncating files
>  ----------------
>  
> @@ -404,7 +414,7 @@ Access rights
>  -------------
>  
>  .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
> -    :identifiers: fs_access net_access
> +    :identifiers: fs_access net_access scoped

If you look at the generated documentation, you'll see that the `Scope
flags` links are broken, and the related section is missing.  This is
because it should not be "scoped" but "scope" here.

With `make htmldocs` you'll also see that there are formating issues in
this (missing) section.
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