From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v24 01/12] landlock: Add object management
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez0GryN4i0xCP22utLTqF5_o5J3nMBs+VC0DpQ+s09Bx6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112205141.775752-2-mic@digikod.net>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:51 PM Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> wrote:
> A Landlock object enables to identify a kernel object (e.g. an inode).
> A Landlock rule is a set of access rights allowed on an object. Rules
> are grouped in rulesets that may be tied to a set of processes (i.e.
> subjects) to enforce a scoped access-control (i.e. a domain).
>
> Because Landlock's goal is to empower any process (especially
> unprivileged ones) to sandbox themselves, we cannot rely on a
> system-wide object identification such as file extended attributes.
> Indeed, we need innocuous, composable and modular access-controls.
>
> The main challenge with these constraints is to identify kernel objects
> while this identification is useful (i.e. when a security policy makes
> use of this object). But this identification data should be freed once
> no policy is using it. This ephemeral tagging should not and may not be
> written in the filesystem. We then need to manage the lifetime of a
> rule according to the lifetime of its objects. To avoid a global lock,
> this implementation make use of RCU and counters to safely reference
> objects.
>
> A following commit uses this generic object management for inodes.
>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Still looks good, except for one comment:
[...]
> + /**
> + * @lock: Guards against concurrent modifications. This lock might be
> + * held from the time @usage drops to zero until any weak references
> + * from @underobj to this object have been cleaned up.
> + *
> + * Lock ordering: inode->i_lock nests inside this.
> + */
> + spinlock_t lock;
Why did you change this to "might be held" (v22 had "must")? Is the
"might" a typo?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-21 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 20:51 [PATCH v24 00/12] Landlock LSM Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 01/12] landlock: Add object management Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-21 7:00 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2020-11-21 10:11 ` Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 02/12] landlock: Add ruleset and domain management Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-20 1:52 ` James Morris
2020-11-21 7:00 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-21 9:45 ` Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 03/12] landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 04/12] landlock: Add ptrace restrictions Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 05/12] LSM: Infrastructure management of the superblock Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 06/12] fs,security: Add sb_delete hook Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 07/12] landlock: Support filesystem access-control Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-21 7:00 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-21 10:06 ` Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-23 19:44 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-23 21:16 ` Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-23 21:19 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 08/12] landlock: Add syscall implementations Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-21 7:00 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 09/12] arch: Wire up Landlock syscalls Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 10/12] selftests/landlock: Add user space tests Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 11/12] samples/landlock: Add a sandbox manager example Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-12 20:51 ` [PATCH v24 12/12] landlock: Add user and kernel documentation Mickaël Salaün
2020-11-21 7:00 ` Jann Horn
2020-11-24 2:38 ` James Morris
2020-11-17 5:37 ` [PATCH v24 00/12] Landlock LSM James Morris
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