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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"Anton Ivanov" <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Casey Schaufler" <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	"Jeff Dike" <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"Vincent Dagonneau" <vincent.dagonneau@ssi.gouv.fr>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v28 07/12] landlock: Support filesystem access-control
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:34:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210219153414.GA18061@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeba97b6-37cd-4870-0a40-3e7aa84ebd36@digikod.net>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> 
> On 10/02/2021 20:36, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:27:05PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> >> From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
> >>
> >> Thanks to the Landlock objects and ruleset, it is possible to identify
> >> inodes according to a process's domain.  To enable an unprivileged
> > 
> > This throws me off a bit.  "identify inodes according to a process's domain".
> > What exactly does it mean?  "identify" how ?
> 
> A domain is a set of rules (i.e. layers of rulesets) enforced on a set
> of threads. Inodes are tagged per domain (i.e. not system-wide) and
> actions are restricted thanks to these tags, which form rules. It means
> that the created access-controls are scoped to a set of threads.

Thanks, that's helpful.  To me it would be much clearer if you used the word
'tagged' :

  Using the Landlock objects and ruleset, it is possible to tag inodes
  according to a process's domain.

> >> process to express a file hierarchy, it first needs to open a directory
> >> (or a file) and pass this file descriptor to the kernel through
> >> landlock_add_rule(2).  When checking if a file access request is
> >> allowed, we walk from the requested dentry to the real root, following
> >> the different mount layers.  The access to each "tagged" inodes are
> >> collected according to their rule layer level, and ANDed to create
> >> access to the requested file hierarchy.  This makes possible to identify
> >> a lot of files without tagging every inodes nor modifying the
> >> filesystem, while still following the view and understanding the user
> >> has from the filesystem.
> >>
> >> Add a new ARCH_EPHEMERAL_INODES for UML because it currently does not
> >> keep the same struct inodes for the same inodes whereas these inodes are
> >> in use.
> > 
> > -serge
> > 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-19 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-02 16:26 [PATCH v28 00/12] Landlock LSM Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-02 16:26 ` [PATCH v28 01/12] landlock: Add object management Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-03 14:21   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-03 15:27     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 02/12] landlock: Add ruleset and domain management Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-04  3:30   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 03/12] landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-04  3:46   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 04/12] landlock: Add ptrace restrictions Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-05 13:48   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 05/12] LSM: Infrastructure management of the superblock Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-05 14:17   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-05 16:51     ` Casey Schaufler
2021-02-05 16:51     ` Casey Schaufler
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 06/12] fs,security: Add sb_delete hook Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-05 14:21   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-05 14:57     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-07  4:18       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 07/12] landlock: Support filesystem access-control Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-10 19:36   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-10 20:17     ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-19 15:34       ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 08/12] landlock: Add syscall implementations Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-03 15:04   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 09/12] arch: Wire up Landlock syscalls Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 10/12] selftests/landlock: Add user space tests Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 11/12] samples/landlock: Add a sandbox manager example Mickaël Salaün
2021-02-02 16:27 ` [PATCH v28 12/12] landlock: Add user and kernel documentation Mickaël Salaün

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