Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 19/19] landlock: Document socket rule type support

From: "Günther Noack" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 09:09:46 +0200

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 06:48:24PM +0800, Mikhail Ivanov wrote:
> Extend documentation with socket rule type description.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Ivanov <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> index 37dafce8038b..4bf45064faa1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A Landlock rule describes an action on an object which the process intends to
>  perform.  A set of rules is aggregated in a ruleset, which can then restrict
>  the thread enforcing it, and its future children.
>  
> -The two existing types of rules are:
> +The three existing types of rules are:
>  
>  Filesystem rules
>      For these rules, the object is a file hierarchy,
> @@ -44,14 +44,19 @@ Network rules (since ABI v4)
>      For these rules, the object is a TCP port,
>      and the related actions are defined with `network access rights`.
>  
> +Socket rules (since ABI v6)
> +    For these rules, the object is a pair of an address family and a socket type,
> +    and the related actions are defined with `socket access rights`.
> +
>  Defining and enforcing a security policy
>  ----------------------------------------
>  
>  We first need to define the ruleset that will contain our rules.
>  
>  For this example, the ruleset will contain rules that only allow filesystem
> -read actions and establish a specific TCP connection. Filesystem write
> -actions and other TCP actions will be denied.
> +read actions, create TCP sockets and establish a specific TCP connection.
> +Filesystem write actions, creating non-TCP sockets and other TCP
> +actions will be denied.
>  
>  The ruleset then needs to handle both these kinds of actions.  This is
>  required for backward and forward compatibility (i.e. the kernel and user
> @@ -81,6 +86,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights.
>          .handled_access_net =
>              LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP |
>              LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP,
> +        .handled_access_socket =
> +            LANDLOCK_ACCESS_SOCKET_CREATE,
>      };
>  
>  Because we may not know on which kernel version an application will be
> @@ -119,6 +126,11 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights:
>      case 4:
>          /* Removes LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV for ABI < 5 */
>          ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV;
> +        __attribute__((fallthrough));
> +	case 5:
> +		/* Removes socket support for ABI < 6 */
> +		ruleset_attr.handled_access_socket &=
> +			~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_SOCKET_CREATE;

When I patched this in, the indentation of this "case" was off, compared to the
rest of the code example.  (The code example uses spaces for indentation, not
tabs.)

>      }
>  
>  This enables to create an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
> @@ -170,6 +182,20 @@ for the ruleset creation, by filtering access rights according to the Landlock
>  ABI version.  In this example, this is not required because all of the requested
>  ``allowed_access`` rights are already available in ABI 1.
>  
> +For socket access-control, we can add a rule to allow TCP sockets creation. UNIX,
> +UDP IP and other protocols will be denied by the ruleset.
> +
> +.. code-block:: c
> +
> +    struct landlock_net_port_attr tcp_socket = {
> +        .allowed_access = LANDLOCK_ACCESS_SOCKET_CREATE,
> +        .family = AF_INET,
> +        .type = SOCK_STREAM,
> +    };
> +
> +    err = landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd, LANDLOCK_RULE_SOCKET,
> +                            &tcp_socket, 0);
> +

IMHO, the length of the "Defining and enforcing a security policy" section is
slowly getting out of hand.  This was easier to follow when it was only file
system rules. -- I wonder whether we should split this up in subsections for the
individual steps to give this a more logical outline, e.g.

* Creating a ruleset
* Adding rules to the ruleset
  * Adding a file system rule
  * Adding a network rule
  * Adding a socket rule
* Enforcing the ruleset

>  For network access-control, we can add a set of rules that allow to use a port
>  number for a specific action: HTTPS connections.
>  
> @@ -186,7 +212,8 @@ number for a specific action: HTTPS connections.
>  The next step is to restrict the current thread from gaining more privileges
>  (e.g. through a SUID binary).  We now have a ruleset with the first rule
>  allowing read access to ``/usr`` while denying all other handled accesses for
> -the filesystem, and a second rule allowing HTTPS connections.
> +the filesystem, a second rule allowing TCP sockets and a third rule allowing
> +HTTPS connections.
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  
> @@ -404,7 +431,7 @@ Access rights
>  -------------
>  
>  .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
> -    :identifiers: fs_access net_access
> +    :identifiers: fs_access net_access socket_access
>  
>  Creating a new ruleset
>  ----------------------
> @@ -423,7 +450,7 @@ Extending a ruleset
>  
>  .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
>      :identifiers: landlock_rule_type landlock_path_beneath_attr
> -                  landlock_net_port_attr
> +                  landlock_net_port_attr landlock_socket_attr
>  
>  Enforcing a ruleset
>  -------------------
> @@ -541,6 +568,13 @@ earlier ABI.
>  Starting with the Landlock ABI version 5, it is possible to restrict the use of
>  :manpage:`ioctl(2)` using the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right.
>  
> +Socket support (ABI < 6)
> +-------------------------
> +
> +Starting with the Landlock ABI version 6, it is now possible to restrict
> +creation of user space sockets to only a set of allowed protocols thanks
> +to the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_SOCKET_CREATE`` access right.
> +
>  .. _kernel_support:
>  
>  Kernel support
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

There is a section further below called "Network support" that talks about the
need for CONFIG_INET in order to add a network rule.  Do similar restrictions
apply to the socket rules as well?  Maybe this should be added to the section.

Please don't forget -- Tahera Fahimi's "scoped" patches have landed in
linux-next by now, so we will need to rebase and bump the ABI version one higher
than before.

Thanks,
—Günther