Landlock IDs can be generated to uniquely identify Landlock objects.
For now, only Landlock domains get an ID at creation time. These IDs
map to immutable domain hierarchies.
Landlock IDs have important properties:
- They are unique during the lifetime of the running system thanks to
the 64-bit values: at worse, 2^60 - 2*2^32 useful IDs.
- They are always greater than 2^32 and must then be stored in 64-bit
integer types.
- The initial ID (at boot time) is randomly picked between 2^32 and
2^33, which limits collisions in logs across different boots.
- IDs are sequential, which enables users to order them.
- IDs may not be consecutive but increase with a random 2^4 step, which
limits side channels.
Such IDs can be exposed to unprivileged processes, even if it is not the
case with this audit patch series. The domain IDs will be useful for
user space to identify sandboxes and get their properties.
These Landlock IDs are more secure that other absolute kernel IDs such
as pipe's inodes which rely on a shared global counter.
For checkpoint/restore features (i.e. CRIU), we could easily implement a
privileged interface (e.g. sysfs) to set the next ID counter.
IDR/IDA are not used because we only need a bijection from Landlock
objects to Landlock IDs, and we must not recycle IDs. This enables us
to identify all Landlock objects during the lifetime of the system (e.g.
in logs), but not to access an object from an ID nor know if an ID is
assigned. Using a counter is simpler, it scales (i.e. avoids growing
memory footprint), and it does not require locking. We'll use proper
file descriptors (with IDs used as inode numbers) to access Landlock
objects.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-3-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Add the SECURITY_LANDLOCK_KUNIT_TEST option to enable KUnit tests for
Landlock. The minimal required configuration is listed in the
security/landlock/.kunitconfig file.
Add an initial landlock_fs KUnit test suite with 7 test cases for
filesystem helpers. These are related to the LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER
right.
There is one KUnit test case per:
* mutated state (e.g. test_scope_to_request_*) or,
* shared state between tests (e.g. test_is_eaccess_*).
Add macros to improve readability of tests (i.e. one per line). Test
cases are collocated with the tested functions to help maintenance and
improve documentation. This is why SECURITY_LANDLOCK_KUNIT_TEST cannot
be set as module.
This is a nice complement to Landlock's user space kselftests. We
expect new Landlock features to come with KUnit tests as well.
Thanks to UML support, we can run all KUnit tests for Landlock with:
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig security/landlock
[00:00:00] ======================= landlock_fs =======================
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_no_more_access
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_scope_to_request_with_exec_none
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_scope_to_request_with_exec_some
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_scope_to_request_without_access
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_is_eacces_with_none
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_is_eacces_with_refer
[00:00:00] [PASSED] test_is_eacces_with_write
[00:00:00] =================== [PASSED] landlock_fs ===================
[00:00:00] ============================================================
[00:00:00] Testing complete. Ran 7 tests: passed: 7
Cc: Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240118113632.1948478-1-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
