From: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: "Tingmao Wang" <m@maowtm.org>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
"Justin Suess" <utilityemal77@gmail.com>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>, "Abhinav Saxena" <xandfury@gmail.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 6/6] landlock: Add documentation for LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:05:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251214170548.408142-7-utilityemal77@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251214170548.408142-1-utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Adds documentation of the flag to the userspace api, describing
the functionality of the flag and parent directory protections.
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
---
v1..v5 changes:
* Initial addition
Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 1d0c2c15c22e..3671cd90fbe2 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -604,6 +604,23 @@ Landlock audit events with the ``LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_LOG_SAME_EXEC_OFF``,
sys_landlock_restrict_self(). See Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
for more details on audit.
+Filesystem inheritance suppression (ABI < 8)
+-----------------
+
+Starting with the Landlock ABI version 8, it is possible to prevent a directory
+or file from inheriting it's parent's access grants by using the
+``LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT`` flag passed to sys_landlock_add_rule(). This
+can be useful for policies where a parent directory needs broader access than its
+children.
+
+To mitigate sandbox-restart attacks, the inode itself, and ancestors of inodes
+tagged with ``LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT`` cannot be removed, renamed,
+reparented, or linked into/from other directories.
+
+These parent directory protections propagate up to the root. Further inheritance
+for grants originating beneath a ``LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT`` tagged inode
+are not affected unless also tagged with this flag.
+
.. _kernel_support:
Kernel support
--
2.51.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-14 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-14 17:05 [PATCH v5 0/6] Implement LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] landlock: " Justin Suess
2025-12-14 22:53 ` Tingmao Wang
2025-12-15 22:21 ` Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] landlock: Implement LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT userspace api Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] samples/landlock: Add LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT to landlock-sandboxer Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] selftests/landlock: Implement selftests for LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] landlock: Implement KUnit test " Justin Suess
2025-12-14 17:05 ` Justin Suess [this message]
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