[PATCH 2/6] landlock: Implement LANDLOCK_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET
Mickaël Salaün
mic at digikod.net
Sun Dec 28 18:15:45 UTC 2025
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 12:45:41PM +0000, Tingmao Wang wrote:
> Extend the existing abstract UNIX socket scoping to pathname sockets as
> well. Basically all of the logic is reused between the two types, just
> that pathname sockets scoping are controlled by another bit, and has its
> own audit request type (since the current one is named
> "abstract_unix_socket").
>
> Closes: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/51
> Signed-off-by: Tingmao Wang <m at maowtm.org>
Great, thanks!
> ---
>
> There is an argument that there should only really be one audit request
> type for both sockets, since the only difference is whether path= is
> followed by a normal path, or by a hex string starting with 00. But I'm
> not sure if we can change this at this point, so I have created a new
> request type.
It is the correct approach to add a dedicated request type, which
enables to filter on it, and doesn't have performance impact.
>
> security/landlock/audit.c | 4 +++
> security/landlock/audit.h | 1 +
> security/landlock/task.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/security/landlock/task.c b/security/landlock/task.c
> index 6dfcc1860d6e..9fbb0ada440b 100644
> --- a/security/landlock/task.c
> +++ b/security/landlock/task.c
> +/*
> + * UNIX sockets can have three types of addresses: pathname (a filesystem path),
> + * unnamed (not bound to an address), and abstract (sun_path[0] is '\0').
> + * Unnamed sockets include those created with socketpair() and unbound sockets.
> + * We do not restrict unnamed sockets since they have no address to identify.
> + */
> static int hook_unix_stream_connect(struct sock *const sock,
> struct sock *const other,
> struct sock *const newsk)
> {
> size_t handle_layer;
> + access_mask_t scope;
> + enum landlock_request_type request_type;
> const struct landlock_cred_security *const subject =
> landlock_get_applicable_subject(current_cred(), unix_scope,
> &handle_layer);
> + const struct unix_address *addr;
>
> /* Quick return for non-landlocked tasks. */
> if (!subject)
> return 0;
>
> - if (!is_abstract_socket(other))
> + addr = unix_sk(other)->addr;
> + /* Unnamed sockets are not restricted. */
> + if (!addr)
> return 0;
>
> - if (!sock_is_scoped(other, subject->domain))
> + if (sock_addr_is_abstract(addr)) {
> + scope = LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + request_type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + } else {
> + /* Pathname socket. */
> + scope = LANDLOCK_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + request_type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + }
> +
> + if (!sock_is_scoped(other, subject->domain, scope))
> return 0;
We should be able to factor out this hunk for both hooks, and then also
fold is_abstract_socket() in this new helper.
>
> landlock_log_denial(subject, &(struct landlock_request) {
> - .type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET,
> + .type = request_type,
> .audit = {
> .type = LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NET,
> .u.net = &(struct lsm_network_audit) {
> @@ -299,9 +326,12 @@ static int hook_unix_may_send(struct socket *const sock,
> struct socket *const other)
> {
> size_t handle_layer;
> + access_mask_t scope;
> + enum landlock_request_type request_type;
> const struct landlock_cred_security *const subject =
> landlock_get_applicable_subject(current_cred(), unix_scope,
> &handle_layer);
> + const struct unix_address *addr;
>
> if (!subject)
> return 0;
> @@ -313,14 +343,24 @@ static int hook_unix_may_send(struct socket *const sock,
> if (unix_peer(sock->sk) == other->sk)
> return 0;
>
> - if (!is_abstract_socket(other->sk))
> + addr = unix_sk(other->sk)->addr;
> + /* Unnamed sockets are not restricted. */
> + if (!addr)
> return 0;
>
> - if (!sock_is_scoped(other->sk, subject->domain))
> + if (sock_addr_is_abstract(addr)) {
> + scope = LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + request_type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + } else {
> + scope = LANDLOCK_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + request_type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET;
> + }
> +
> + if (!sock_is_scoped(other->sk, subject->domain, scope))
> return 0;
>
> landlock_log_denial(subject, &(struct landlock_request) {
> - .type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET,
> + .type = request_type,
> .audit = {
> .type = LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NET,
> .u.net = &(struct lsm_network_audit) {
> --
> 2.52.0
>
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