[PATCH v1] landlock: Improve documentation of previous limitations

Mickaël Salaün mic at digikod.net
Fri Oct 4 15:31:20 UTC 2024


Improve consistency of previous limitations' subsection titles, and
expand a bit the IOCTL section.

This changes some HTML anchors and may break some external links though.

Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack at google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze at huawei.com>
Cc: Tahera Fahimi <fahimitahera at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net>
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index c8d3e46badc5..1febc71e2366 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -563,33 +563,34 @@ always allowed when using a kernel that only supports the first or second ABI.
 Starting with the Landlock ABI version 3, it is now possible to securely control
 truncation thanks to the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE`` access right.
 
-Network support (ABI < 4)
--------------------------
+TCP bind and connect (ABI < 4)
+------------------------------
 
 Starting with the Landlock ABI version 4, it is now possible to restrict TCP
 bind and connect actions to only a set of allowed ports thanks to the new
 ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP`` and ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP``
 access rights.
 
-IOCTL (ABI < 5)
----------------
+Device IOCTL (ABI < 5)
+----------------------
 
 IOCTL operations could not be denied before the fifth Landlock ABI, so
 :manpage:`ioctl(2)` is always allowed when using a kernel that only supports an
 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.
+:manpage:`ioctl(2)` on character and block devices using the new
+``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV`` right.
 
-Abstract UNIX socket scoping (ABI < 6)
---------------------------------------
+Abstract UNIX socket (ABI < 6)
+------------------------------
 
 Starting with the Landlock ABI version 6, it is possible to restrict
 connections to an abstract :manpage:`unix(7)` socket by setting
 ``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET`` to the ``scoped`` ruleset attribute.
 
-Signal scoping (ABI < 6)
-------------------------
+Signal (ABI < 6)
+----------------
 
 Starting with the Landlock ABI version 6, it is possible to restrict
 :manpage:`signal(7)` sending by setting ``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL`` to the
-- 
2.46.1




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