[PATCH v6 9/9] landlock: Document FS access right for pathname UNIX sockets

Günther Noack gnoack3000 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 22:21:50 UTC 2026


Cc: Justin Suess <utilityemal77 at gmail.com>
Cc: Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net>
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000 at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 13134bccdd39..e60ebd07c5cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights.
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SYM |
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER |
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE |
-            LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV,
+            LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_IOCTL_DEV |
+            LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX,
         .handled_access_net =
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_TCP |
             LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_TCP,
@@ -127,6 +128,11 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights:
         /* Removes LANDLOCK_SCOPE_* for ABI < 6 */
         ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~(LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET |
                                  LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL);
+        __attribute__((fallthrough));
+    case 7:
+    case 8:
+        /* Removes LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX for ABI < 9 */
+        ruleset_attr.handled_access_fs &= ~LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX;
     }
 
 This enables the creation of an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
@@ -685,6 +691,13 @@ enforce Landlock rulesets across all threads of the calling process
 using the ``LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC`` flag passed to
 sys_landlock_restrict_self().
 
+Pathname UNIX sockets (ABI < 9)
+-------------------------------
+
+Starting with the Landlock ABI version 9, it is possible to restrict
+connections to pathname UNIX domain sockets (:manpage:`unix(7)`) using
+the new ``LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX`` right.
+
 .. _kernel_support:
 
 Kernel support
-- 
2.53.0




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