On 04/03/2023 18:16, Günther Noack wrote:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/299e2b1967578b1442128ba8b3e86ed3427d3651
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
man7/landlock.7 | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/landlock.7 b/man7/landlock.7
index 1ab0a6cbc..f711000f1 100644
--- a/man7/landlock.7
+++ b/man7/landlock.7
@@ -64,9 +64,39 @@ Execute a file.
.TP
.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE
Open a file with write access.
+.IP
+When opening files for writing,
+you will often additionally need the
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
+right.
+In many cases,
+these system calls truncate existing files when overwriting them
+(e.g.,
+.BR creat (2)).
.TP
.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_FILE
Open a file with read access.
+.TP
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
+Truncate a file with
+.BR truncate (2),
+.BR ftruncate (2),
+.BR creat (2),
+or
+.BR open (2)
+with
+.BR O_TRUNC .
+Whether an opened file can be truncated with
+.BR ftruncate (2)
+is determined during
+.BR open (2),
+in the same way as read and write permissions are checked during
+.BR open (2)
+using
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ_FILE
+and
+.BR LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE .
+This access right is available since the third version of the Landlock ABI.
.PP
A directory can receive access rights related to files or directories.
The following access right is applied to the directory itself,
@@ -231,6 +261,53 @@ To be allowed to use
and related syscalls on a target process,
a sandboxed process should have a subset of the target process rules,
which means the tracee must be in a sub-domain of the tracer.
+.\"
+.SS Truncating files
+The operations covered by
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE
+and
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
+both change the contents of a file and sometimes overlap in
+non-intuitive ways.
+It is recommended to always specify both of these together.
+.PP
+A particularly surprising example is
+.BR creat (2).
+The name suggests that this system call requires
+the rights to create and write files.
+However, it also requires the truncate right
+if an existing file under the same name is already present.
+.PP
+It should also be noted that truncating files does not require the
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE_FILE
+right.
+Apart from the
+.BR truncate (2)
+system call, this can also be done through
+.BR open (2)
+with the flags
+.IR "O_RDONLY\ |\ O_TRUNC" .
+.PP
+When opening a file, the availability of the
+.B LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
+right is associated with the newly created file descriptor
+and will be used for subsequent truncation attempts using
+.BR ftruncate (2).
+The behavior is similar to opening a file for reading or writing,
+where permissions are checked during
+.BR open (2),
+but not during the subsequent
+.BR read (2)
+and
+.BR write (2)
+calls.
+.PP
+As a consequence,
+it is possible to have multiple open file descriptors for the same file,
+where one grants the right to truncate the file and the other does not.
+It is also possible to pass such file descriptors between processes,
+keeping their Landlock properties,
+even when these processes do not have an enforced Landlock ruleset.
.SH VERSIONS
Landlock was introduced in Linux 5.13.
.PP
@@ -257,6 +334,8 @@ _ _ _
\^ \^ LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SYM
_ _ _
2 5.19 LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER
+_ _ _
+3 6.2 LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
.TE
.sp 1
.PP
@@ -302,7 +381,6 @@ in kernel logs.
It is currently not possible to restrict some file-related actions
accessible through these system call families:
.BR chdir (2),
-.BR truncate (2),
.BR stat (2),
.BR flock (2),
.BR chmod (2),
@@ -340,7 +418,8 @@ attr.handled_access_fs =
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_FIFO |
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_BLOCK |
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAKE_SYM |
- LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER;
+ LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER |
+ LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE;
ruleset_fd = landlock_create_ruleset(&attr, sizeof(attr), 0);
if (ruleset_fd == -1) {