From: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
To: "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
"Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>, "Jeff Xu" <jeffxu@google.com>,
"Justin Suess" <utilityemal77@gmail.com>,
"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
"Masami Hiramatsu" <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Matthieu Buffet" <matthieu@buffet.re>,
"Mikhail Ivanov" <ivanov.mikhail1@huawei-partners.com>,
"Tingmao Wang" <m@maowtm.org>,
kernel-team@cloudflare.com,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 08/20] landlock: Add create_ruleset and free_ruleset tracepoints
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:11:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722171159.2776765-9-mic@digikod.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260722171159.2776765-1-mic@digikod.net>
Add the first Landlock tracepoints, for ruleset lifecycle:
landlock_create_ruleset fires from the landlock_create_ruleset() syscall
handler, and landlock_free_ruleset fires in free_ruleset() before the
ruleset is freed.
These tracepoints, and the ones added by the following commits, share a
common design. Rather than one polymorphic event distinguished by a
status field (as audit uses a shared record type with a "status="
field), each lifecycle transition and denial type gets its own event
with a type-safe TP_PROTO, giving precise ftrace filtering by event name
and type-safe eBPF access. TP_PROTO passes the object pointer and the
fields are read from it in TP_fast_assign, so an eBPF program reads the
full object state (rules, access masks, hierarchy) via BTF from a single
pointer rather than from the flattened TP_STRUCT__entry fields. The
whole cost is paid only when a tracer is attached; the static branch is
not taken otherwise. Trace fields carry the bare access-right and scope
names (read_file), reusing the audit name tables; audit prepends the
category (fs.read_file), which the trace event name already conveys.
The trace header's DOC comment documents the consistency and locking
guarantees these events share.
create_ruleset needs no lock because the ruleset is not yet shared (its
file descriptor is not yet installed). The deallocation events use the
"free_" prefix, not "drop_", because they fire when the object is
actually freed.
Add trace.c, built for CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS, which defines
CREATE_TRACE_POINTS, and extend CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG to also be
selected by CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS so the common log framework is available
to a tracepoints-only build.
Add an id field to struct landlock_ruleset, gated on CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
and assigned from landlock_get_id_range() at creation. Only the
tracepoints consume it (audit identifies domains, not rulesets), so it
does not exist in an audit-only build. The Landlock ID is a stable u64
that names the ruleset across the trace stream and uses the same scheme
as audit, so a ruleset can be correlated between trace and audit
records.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
---
Changes since v2:
https://patch.msgid.link/20260406143717.1815792-7-mic@digikod.net
- Reformatted TP_STRUCT__entry and TP_fast_assign to kernel tracing
convention (requested by Steven Rostedt).
- Render the handled access masks as symbolic names with
__print_flags(), shared with the audit blocker names.
- Move the id.h declaration guard widening (landlock_init_id,
landlock_get_id_range) to the earlier commit that builds id.o under
CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG, so intermediate patches build without
CONFIG_AUDIT.
- Refine the trace-event consistency-guarantee DOC comment (observable
from user space, balanced creation and deallocation events) and
document why create_ruleset emits before the file descriptor is
installed.
- Define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in a dedicated trace.c built for
CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS, and extend CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG to be
selected by CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS here (the first tracepoint consumer),
rather than placing CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in the audit and log
translation unit.
- Gate the struct landlock_ruleset id field on CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS (only
tracing uses it) instead of CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG.
Changes since v1:
- New patch (split from the v1 add_rule_fs tracepoint patch).
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
include/linux/landlock.h | 1 +
include/trace/events/landlock.h | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
security/landlock/Kconfig | 2 +-
security/landlock/Makefile | 2 +
security/landlock/ruleset.c | 8 ++
security/landlock/ruleset.h | 9 +++
security/landlock/syscalls.c | 11 +++
security/landlock/trace.c | 17 ++++
9 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/landlock.h
create mode 100644 security/landlock/trace.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 91de7e3c2836..ca41aec9993c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -14599,6 +14599,7 @@ F: Documentation/security/landlock.rst
F: Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
F: fs/ioctl.c
F: include/linux/landlock.h
+F: include/trace/events/landlock.h
F: include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
F: samples/landlock/
F: security/landlock/
diff --git a/include/linux/landlock.h b/include/linux/landlock.h
index cabe6c784833..004cbd0b9298 100644
--- a/include/linux/landlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/landlock.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_LANDLOCK_H
#define _LINUX_LANDLOCK_H
+#include <linux/types.h>
#include <uapi/linux/landlock.h>
/*
diff --git a/include/trace/events/landlock.h b/include/trace/events/landlock.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2fb717055cc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/trace/events/landlock.h
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright © 2025 Microsoft Corporation
+ * Copyright © 2026 Cloudflare, Inc.
+ */
+
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM landlock
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_LANDLOCK_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_LANDLOCK_H
+
+#include <linux/landlock.h>
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+
+struct landlock_ruleset;
+
+/* Maps a shared _LANDLOCK_*_NAMES entry to a __print_flags() pair. */
+#define _LANDLOCK_NAME_ENTRY(mask, name) { mask, name }
+
+/**
+ * DOC: Landlock trace events
+ *
+ * These guarantees and constraints hold for every Landlock tracepoint.
+ * A new tracepoint must uphold them, and an eBPF consumer can rely on
+ * them.
+ *
+ * Lifecycle consistency
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *
+ * Lifecycle events are balanced: a creation event always has a matching
+ * deallocation event and vice versa, so an eBPF program can model object
+ * lifetimes from the trace stream without reconciliation logic. A creation
+ * event fires while the object is still private to the calling thread
+ * (landlock_create_ruleset fires before the ruleset's file descriptor is
+ * installed, so it cannot race a concurrent :manpage:`close(2)`); if fd
+ * installation later fails and the ruleset is freed, free_ruleset still
+ * fires, keeping the pair balanced. The domain pair (create_domain and
+ * free_domain) is balanced the same way: create_domain fires when the
+ * domain is created (under the ruleset lock, before thread-sync), and
+ * free_domain fires when it is freed. A rare thread-sync failure aborts
+ * the just-created domain, which then emits both events (its creation, then
+ * an immediate free). Denial events fire only for denials that actually
+ * happen.
+ *
+ * Pointer access
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *
+ * All pointer arguments in TP_PROTO are guaranteed non-NULL by the
+ * caller, but pointers reached through them may still be NULL (e.g.,
+ * hierarchy->parent at a root domain) and must be checked. eBPF programs
+ * read these pointers via BTF for richer introspection than the
+ * TP_STRUCT__entry fields, which serve TP_printk display only.
+ *
+ * Mutable object pointers are passed while the caller holds the object's
+ * lock, so TP_fast_assign and a BTF reader see the exact object the event
+ * reports, a snapshot no concurrent writer can change: add_rule holds the
+ * modified ruleset's lock, and create_domain holds the ruleset lock across
+ * the emission (before the thread-sync wait) so the inspected ruleset is
+ * the one merged into the domain. Objects immutable at the emission site
+ * (a domain after creation, a hierarchy at its last reference) need no
+ * lock. A few values that no held lock protects are a best-effort
+ * lockless snapshot instead: a task's comm, and the deny_access_net struct
+ * sock (whose network hook holds no socket lock), matching how the sched
+ * and signal trace events sample comm.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * landlock_create_ruleset - New ruleset created
+ *
+ * @ruleset: Newly created ruleset (never NULL); not yet shared via an fd,
+ * so no lock is needed.
+ *
+ * Emitted by sys_landlock_create_ruleset() while the new ruleset is still
+ * private to the calling thread, before its file descriptor is installed,
+ * so it cannot race a concurrent :manpage:`close(2)`. Balanced by a
+ * matching landlock_free_ruleset event.
+ */
+TRACE_EVENT(landlock_create_ruleset,
+
+ TP_PROTO(const struct landlock_ruleset *ruleset),
+
+ TP_ARGS(ruleset),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( __u64, ruleset_id )
+ __field( access_mask_t, handled_fs )
+ __field( access_mask_t, handled_net )
+ __field( access_mask_t, scoped )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->ruleset_id = ruleset->id;
+ __entry->handled_fs = ruleset->handled_masks.fs;
+ __entry->handled_net = ruleset->handled_masks.net;
+ __entry->scoped = ruleset->handled_masks.scope;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("ruleset=%llx handled_fs=%s handled_net=%s scoped=%s",
+ __entry->ruleset_id,
+ __print_flags(__entry->handled_fs, "|", _LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_NAMES),
+ __print_flags(__entry->handled_net, "|", _LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_NAMES),
+ __print_flags(__entry->scoped, "|", _LANDLOCK_SCOPE_NAMES))
+);
+
+/**
+ * landlock_free_ruleset - Ruleset freed
+ *
+ * @ruleset: Ruleset being freed (never NULL); at its last reference, so no
+ * lock is needed.
+ *
+ * Emitted when a ruleset's last reference is dropped (typically when
+ * the creating process closes the ruleset file descriptor). Fires even
+ * when file-descriptor installation failed after creation, keeping the
+ * create/free pair balanced.
+ */
+TRACE_EVENT(landlock_free_ruleset,
+
+ TP_PROTO(const struct landlock_ruleset *ruleset),
+
+ TP_ARGS(ruleset),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( __u64, ruleset_id )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->ruleset_id = ruleset->id;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("ruleset=%llx", __entry->ruleset_id)
+);
+
+#undef _LANDLOCK_NAME_ENTRY
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_LANDLOCK_H */
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>
diff --git a/security/landlock/Kconfig b/security/landlock/Kconfig
index b4e7f0e9ba9b..7aeac29160e8 100644
--- a/security/landlock/Kconfig
+++ b/security/landlock/Kconfig
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config SECURITY_LANDLOCK
config SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG
bool
depends on SECURITY_LANDLOCK
- default y if AUDIT
+ default y if AUDIT || TRACEPOINTS
config SECURITY_LANDLOCK_KUNIT_TEST
bool "KUnit tests for Landlock" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
diff --git a/security/landlock/Makefile b/security/landlock/Makefile
index 2462e6c5921e..2711f4876939 100644
--- a/security/landlock/Makefile
+++ b/security/landlock/Makefile
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ landlock-$(CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK_LOG) += \
log.o
landlock-$(CONFIG_AUDIT) += audit.o
+
+landlock-$(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) += trace.o
diff --git a/security/landlock/ruleset.c b/security/landlock/ruleset.c
index 13edb77f07a0..3bfee53177d8 100644
--- a/security/landlock/ruleset.c
+++ b/security/landlock/ruleset.c
@@ -23,10 +23,13 @@
#include <uapi/linux/landlock.h>
#include "access.h"
+#include "id.h"
#include "limits.h"
#include "object.h"
#include "ruleset.h"
+#include <trace/events/landlock.h>
+
struct landlock_ruleset *
landlock_create_ruleset(const access_mask_t fs_access_mask,
const access_mask_t net_access_mask,
@@ -50,6 +53,10 @@ landlock_create_ruleset(const access_mask_t fs_access_mask,
new_ruleset->rules.root_net_port = RB_ROOT;
#endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET) */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
+ new_ruleset->id = landlock_get_id_range(1);
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
+
/* Should already be checked in landlock_create_ruleset(). */
if (fs_access_mask) {
const access_mask_t mask = fs_access_mask &
@@ -325,6 +332,7 @@ void landlock_free_rules(struct landlock_rules *const rules)
static void free_ruleset(struct landlock_ruleset *const ruleset)
{
might_sleep();
+ trace_landlock_free_ruleset(ruleset);
landlock_free_rules(&ruleset->rules);
kfree(ruleset);
}
diff --git a/security/landlock/ruleset.h b/security/landlock/ruleset.h
index da6a12a8e066..ca1fd5f4c417 100644
--- a/security/landlock/ruleset.h
+++ b/security/landlock/ruleset.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
*
* Copyright © 2016-2020 Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
* Copyright © 2018-2020 ANSSI
+ * Copyright © 2026 Cloudflare, Inc.
*/
#ifndef _SECURITY_LANDLOCK_RULESET_H
@@ -164,6 +165,14 @@ struct landlock_ruleset {
* @usage: Number of file descriptors referencing this ruleset.
*/
refcount_t usage;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
+ /**
+ * @id: Unique identifier for this ruleset, used for tracing.
+ */
+ u64 id;
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
+
/**
* @quiet_masks: Stores the quiet flags for an unmerged ruleset. For a
* merged domain, this is stored in each layer's struct
diff --git a/security/landlock/syscalls.c b/security/landlock/syscalls.c
index 0ad20a6f9564..dbc4facf00b6 100644
--- a/security/landlock/syscalls.c
+++ b/security/landlock/syscalls.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
#include "setup.h"
#include "tsync.h"
+#include <trace/events/landlock.h>
+
static bool is_initialized(void)
{
if (likely(landlock_initialized))
@@ -281,6 +283,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(landlock_create_ruleset,
ruleset->quiet_masks.net = ruleset_attr.quiet_access_net;
ruleset->quiet_masks.scope = ruleset_attr.quiet_scoped;
+ /*
+ * Emits before anon_inode_getfd() installs the file descriptor, while
+ * the ruleset is still private to this thread: no lock is needed, and
+ * the event cannot race a concurrent close() freeing the ruleset under
+ * the tracepoint's BTF read. This is the last point at which the
+ * ruleset is guaranteed alive and unshared.
+ */
+ trace_landlock_create_ruleset(ruleset);
+
/* Creates anonymous FD referring to the ruleset. */
ruleset_fd = anon_inode_getfd("[landlock-ruleset]", &ruleset_fops,
ruleset, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
diff --git a/security/landlock/trace.c b/security/landlock/trace.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aeb6eeebe42a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/landlock/trace.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Landlock - Tracepoint helpers
+ *
+ * Copyright © 2025 Microsoft Corporation
+ * Copyright © 2026 Cloudflare, Inc.
+ */
+
+#include "ruleset.h"
+
+/*
+ * Generates the tracepoint definitions in this translation unit. The trace
+ * event header dereferences the traced objects in TP_fast_assign, so the full
+ * struct definitions (e.g. ruleset.h) must be included before it.
+ */
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/landlock.h>
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-22 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-22 17:11 [PATCH v3 00/20] Landlock tracepoints Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 01/20] landlock: Prepare ruleset and domain type split Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 02/20] landlock: Move domain query functions to domain.c Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 03/20] landlock: Split struct landlock_domain from struct landlock_ruleset Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 04/20] landlock: Split denial logging from audit into common framework Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 05/20] landlock: Decouple the per-denial logging decision from CONFIG_AUDIT Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 06/20] landlock: Consolidate access-right and scope names in a shared header Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 07/20] tracing: Add __print_untrusted_str() Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` Mickaël Salaün [this message]
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 09/20] landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 10/20] landlock: Add create_domain and free_domain tracepoints Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 11/20] landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain tracepoint Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 12/20] landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 13/20] landlock: Add landlock_deny_access_fs and landlock_deny_access_net Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 14/20] landlock: Add tracepoints for ptrace and scope denials Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 15/20] selftests/landlock: Add trace event test infrastructure and tests Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 16/20] selftests/landlock: Add filesystem tracepoint tests Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 17/20] selftests/landlock: Add network " Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 18/20] selftests/landlock: Add scope and ptrace " Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 19/20] selftests/landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain trace tests Mickaël Salaün
2026-07-22 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 20/20] landlock: Document tracepoints Mickaël Salaün
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