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Subject[PATCH v1 10/11] landlock: Document good practices about filesystem policies
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From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220221212522.320243-11-mic@digikod.net
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Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 97db09d36a5c..cc3b52f65f99 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,27 @@ ruleset.

Full working code can be found in `samples/landlock/sandboxer.c`_.

+Good practices
+--------------
+
+It is recommended setting access rights to file hierarchy leaves as much as
+possible. For instance, it is better to be able to have ``~/doc/`` as a
+read-only hierarchy and ``~/tmp/`` as a read-write hierarchy, compared to
+``~/`` as a read-only hierarchy and ``~/tmp/`` as a read-write hierarchy.
+Following this good practice leads to self-sufficient hierarchies that don't
+depend on their location (i.e. parent directories). This is particularly
+relevant when we want to allow linking or renaming. Indeed, having consistent
+access rights per directory enables to change the location of such directory
+without relying on the destination directory access rights (except those that
+are required for this operation, see `LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER` documentation).
+Having self-sufficient hierarchies also helps to tighten the required access
+rights to the minimal set of data. This also helps avoid sinkhole directories,
+i.e. directories where data can be linked to but not linked from. However,
+this depends on data organization, which might not be controlled by developers.
+In this case, granting read-write access to ``~/tmp/``, instead of write-only
+access, would potentially allow to move ``~/tmp/`` to a non-readable directory
+and still keep the ability to list the content of ``~/tmp/``.
+
Layers of file path access rights
---------------------------------

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