Hi,
This new version of Landlock is a major revamp of the previous series [1], hence the RFC tag. The three main changes are the replacement of eBPF with a dedicated safe management of access rules, the replacement of the use of seccomp(2) with a dedicated syscall, and the management of filesystem access-control (back from the v10).
As discussed in [2], eBPF may be too powerful and dangerous to be put in the hand of unprivileged and potentially malicious processes, especially because of side-channel attacks against access-controls or other parts of the kernel.
Thanks to this new implementation (1540 SLOC), designed from the ground to be used by unprivileged processes, this series enables a process to sandbox itself without requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but only the no_new_privs constraint (like seccomp). Not relying on eBPF also enables to improve performances, especially for stacked security policies thanks to mergeable rulesets.
The compiled documentation is available here: https://landlock.io/linux-doc/landlock-v14/security/landlock/index.html
This series can be applied on top of v5.6-rc3. This can be tested with CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK and CONFIG_SAMPLE_LANDLOCK. This patch series can be found in a Git repository here: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/commits/landlock-v14 I would really appreciate constructive comments on the design and the code.
# Landlock LSM
The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global filesystem access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock is a stackable LSM [3], 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 unexpected/malicious behaviors in user-space applications. Landlock empower any process, including unprivileged ones, to securely restrict themselves.
Landlock is inspired by seccomp-bpf but instead of filtering syscalls and their raw arguments, a Landlock rule can restrict the use of kernel objects like file hierarchies, according to the kernel semantic. Landlock also takes inspiration from other OS sandbox mechanisms: XNU Sandbox, FreeBSD Capsicum or OpenBSD Pledge/Unveil.
# Current limitations
## Path walk
Landlock need to use dentries to identify a file hierarchy, which is needed for composable and unprivileged access-controls. This means that path resolution/walking (handled with inode_permission()) is not supported, yet. This could be filled with a future extension first of the LSM framework. The Landlock userspace ABI can handle such change with new option (e.g. to the struct landlock_ruleset).
## UnionFS
An UnionFS super-block use a set of upper and lower directories. An access request to a file in one of these hierarchy trigger a call to ovl_path_real() which generate another access request according to the matching hierarchy. Because such super-block is not aware of its current mount point, OverlayFS can't create a dedicated mnt_parent for each of the upper and lower directories mount clones. It is then not currently possible to track the source of such indirect access-request, and then not possible to identify a unified OverlayFS hierarchy.
## Syscall
Because it is only tested on x86_64, the syscall is only wired up for this architecture. The whole x86 family (and probably all the others) will be supported in the next patch series.
## Memory limits
There is currently no limit on the memory usage. Any idea to leverage an existing mechanism (e.g. rlimit)?
# Changes since v13
* Revamp of the LSM: remove the need for eBPF and seccomp(2). * Implement a full filesystem access-control. * Take care of the backward compatibility issues, especially for this security features.
Previous version: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191104172146.30797-1-mic@digikod.net/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191104172146.30797-1-mic@digikod.net/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a6b61f33-82dc-0c1c-7a6c-1926343ef63e@digikod.ne... [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/50db058a-7dde-441b-a7f9-f6837fe8b69f@schaufler-...
Regards,
Mickaël Salaün (10): landlock: Add object and rule management landlock: Add ruleset and domain management landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials landlock: Add ptrace restrictions fs,landlock: Support filesystem access-control landlock: Add syscall implementation arch: Wire up landlock() syscall selftests/landlock: Add initial tests samples/landlock: Add a sandbox manager example landlock: Add user and kernel documentation
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