kernel/linux.git/security/landlock/task.c, branch v6.12.107

landlock: Fix LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL bypass on the SIGIO path

2026-08-03T09:17:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4b80320ca7ed03d6e683f95b6066565dc97b9f92 ] LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL must prevent a sandboxed process from signaling processes outside its Landlock domain. It can be bypassed through the asynchronous SIGIO delivery path. A sandboxed process that owns any file or socket can arm it with fcntl(fd, F_SETOWN, -pgid), fcntl(fd, F_SETSIG, SIGKILL) and O_ASYNC, so that an I/O event makes the kernel deliver the chosen signal to the whole process group. As the head of its process group's task list (the default position right after fork()) that group can also hold the non-sandboxed process that launched it, e.g. a supervisor or a security monitor. The sandbox can thus kill or signal the processes LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL is meant to protect from it. The scope is enforced in hook_file_send_sigiotask() against the Landlock domain recorded at F_SETOWN time, not the live domain of the sender. control_current_fowner() decides whether to record that domain and skips recording it when the fowner target is in the caller's thread group, which is safe only for a single-task target (PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID). For a process group (PIDTYPE_PGID) pid_task() returns only one member; recording is skipped whenever that member shares the caller's thread group, and hook_file_send_sigiotask() then lets the signal fan out to the whole group unchecked. Record the domain for every non single-process target so the scope is enforced against each group member at delivery time. That recording is necessary but not sufficient on its own: the kernel signals a process group through its members' thread-group leaders, and the leader of the registrant's own process can carry a different Landlock domain than the sibling thread that armed the owner. domain_is_scoped() would then deny that leader, even though commit 18eb75f3af40 ("landlock: Always allow signals between threads of the same process") requires same-process delivery to be allowed. hook_task_kill() avoids this by evaluating same_thread_group() live, per recipient; the SIGIO path instead delegates the whole decision to a single registration-time check, which a process-group fan-out cannot honor. So also record the registrant's thread group next to its domain and exempt it at delivery: hook_file_send_sigiotask() allows the signal whenever the recipient belongs to the registrant's own process, restoring the same-process guarantee while keeping out-of-domain group members blocked. The direct kill() path (hook_task_kill) already evaluates the live domain and is unaffected. Fixes: 18eb75f3af40 ("landlock: Always allow signals between threads of the same process") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas Reviewed-by: Günther Noack Link: https://patch.msgid.link/56bffc24f3d0d08b45a686a48e99766b0a0821fa.1780614610.git.hexlabsecurity@proton.me [mic: Check pid_type earlier and improve comment, fix commit message, fix comment formatting] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

landlock: Prepare to use credential instead of domain for fowner

2026-08-03T09:17:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 79625f1b3a3df63d3289a0781fdf121bc42966f7 ] This cosmetic change is needed for audit support, specifically to be able to filter according to cross-execution boundaries. struct landlock_file_security's size stay the same for now but it will increase with struct landlock_cred_security's size. Only save Landlock domain in hook_file_set_fowner() if the current domain has LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL, which was previously done for each hook_file_send_sigiotask() calls. This should improve a bit performance. Replace hardcoded LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL with the signal_scope.scope variable. Use scoped guards for RCU read-side critical sections. Cc: Günther Noack Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320190717.2287696-8-mic@digikod.net Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün Stable-dep-of: 4b80320ca7ed ("landlock: Fix LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL bypass on the SIGIO path") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

landlock: Always allow signals between threads of the same process

2025-04-20T08:15:55+00:00

commit 18eb75f3af40be1f0fc2025d4ff821711222a2fd upstream. Because Linux credentials are managed per thread, user space relies on some hack to synchronize credential update across threads from the same process. This is required by the Native POSIX Threads Library and implemented by set*id(2) wrappers and libcap(3) to use tgkill(2) to synchronize threads. See nptl(7) and libpsx(3). Furthermore, some runtimes like Go do not enable developers to have control over threads [1]. To avoid potential issues, and because threads are not security boundaries, let's relax the Landlock (optional) signal scoping to always allow signals sent between threads of the same process. This exception is similar to the __ptrace_may_access() one. hook_file_set_fowner() now checks if the target task is part of the same process as the caller. If this is the case, then the related signal triggered by the socket will always be allowed. Scoping of abstract UNIX sockets is not changed because kernel objects (e.g. sockets) should be tied to their creator's domain at creation time. Note that creating one Landlock domain per thread puts each of these threads (and their future children) in their own scope, which is probably not what users expect, especially in Go where we do not control threads. However, being able to drop permissions on all threads should not be restricted by signal scoping. We are working on a way to make it possible to atomically restrict all threads of a process with the same domain [2]. Add erratum for signal scoping. Closes: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/go-landlock/issues/36 Fixes: 54a6e6bbf3be ("landlock: Add signal scoping") Fixes: c8994965013e ("selftests/landlock: Test signal scoping for threads") Depends-on: 26f204380a3c ("fs: Fix file_set_fowner LSM hook inconsistencies") Link: https://pkg.go.dev/kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/libcap/psx [1] Link: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/2 [2] Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Tahera Fahimi Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Christian Brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318161443.279194-6-mic@digikod.net [mic: Add extra pointer check and RCU guard, and ease backport] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

landlock: Optimize scope enforcement

2024-11-09T18:52:13+00:00

Do not walk through the domain hierarchy when the required scope is not supported by this domain. This is the same approach as for filesystem and network restrictions. Cc: Mikhail Ivanov Cc: Tahera Fahimi Reviewed-by: Günther Noack Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241109110856.222842-4-mic@digikod.net Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün

landlock: Add signal scoping

2024-09-16T21:50:52+00:00

Currently, a sandbox process is not restricted to sending a signal (e.g. SIGKILL) to a process outside the sandbox environment. The ability to send a signal for a sandboxed process should be scoped the same way abstract UNIX sockets are scoped. Therefore, we extend the "scoped" field in a ruleset with LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL to specify that a ruleset will deny sending any signal from within a sandbox process to its parent (i.e. any parent sandbox or non-sandboxed processes). This patch adds file_set_fowner and file_free_security hooks to set and release a pointer to the file owner's domain. This pointer, fown_domain in landlock_file_security will be used in file_send_sigiotask to check if the process can send a signal. The ruleset_with_unknown_scope test is updated to support LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL. This depends on two new changes: - commit 1934b212615d ("file: reclaim 24 bytes from f_owner"): replace container_of(fown, struct file, f_owner) with fown->file . - commit 26f204380a3c ("fs: Fix file_set_fowner LSM hook inconsistencies"): lock before calling the hook. Signed-off-by: Tahera Fahimi Closes: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/8 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/df2b4f880a2ed3042992689a793ea0951f6798a5.1725657727.git.fahimitahera@gmail.com [mic: Update landlock_get_current_domain()'s return type, improve and fix locking in hook_file_set_fowner(), simplify and fix sleepable call and locking issue in hook_file_send_sigiotask() and rebase on the latest VFS tree, simplify hook_task_kill() and quickly return when not sandboxed, improve comments, rename LANDLOCK_SCOPED_SIGNAL] Co-developed-by: Mickaël Salaün Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün

landlock: Add abstract UNIX socket scoping

2024-09-16T21:50:45+00:00

Introduce a new "scoped" member to landlock_ruleset_attr that can specify LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET to restrict connection to abstract UNIX sockets from a process outside of the socket's domain. Two hooks are implemented to enforce these restrictions: unix_stream_connect and unix_may_send. Closes: https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/7 Signed-off-by: Tahera Fahimi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5f7ad85243b78427242275b93481cfc7c127764b.1725494372.git.fahimitahera@gmail.com [mic: Fix commit message formatting, improve documentation, simplify hook_unix_may_send(), and cosmetic fixes including rename of LANDLOCK_SCOPED_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET] Co-developed-by: Mickaël Salaün Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün

landlock: Rename "ptrace" files to "task"

2024-03-08T17:22:16+00:00

ptrace.[ch] are currently only used for the ptrace LSM hooks but their scope will expand with IPCs and audit support. Rename ptrace.[ch] to task.[ch], which better reflect their content. Similarly, rename landlock_add_ptrace_hooks() to landlock_add_task_hooks(). Keep header files for now. Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Paul Moore Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307093923.1466071-2-mic@digikod.net Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün