[PATCH 6/6] landlock: Document POSIX message queue scoping

From: Oxana Kharitonova

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 08:32:14 EST


Document LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE in the userspace API and UAPI
kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Oxana Kharitonova <oxana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst | 6 ++++--
Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst | 11 ++++++++++-
include/uapi/linux/landlock.h | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
index 8eb85c9381ff..1ecb2017271b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/landlock.rst
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@ AUDIT_LANDLOCK_ACCESS
- net.bind_udp - UDP port binding was denied
- net.connect_send_udp - UDP connection and send was denied

- **scope.*** - IPC scoping restrictions (ABI 6+):
+ **scope.*** - IPC scoping restrictions:
- scope.abstract_unix_socket - Abstract UNIX socket connection denied
- - scope.signal - Signal sending denied
+ (ABI 6+)
+ - scope.signal - Signal sending denied (ABI 6+)
+ - scope.posix_msg_queue - POSIX message queue opening denied (ABI 11+)

Multiple blockers can appear in a single event (comma-separated) when
multiple access rights are missing. For example, creating a regular file
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
index 5a63d4476c1c..c4fa84e6d281 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/landlock.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ to be explicit about the denied-by-default access rights.
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_SEND_UDP,
.scoped =
LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET |
- LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL,
+ LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL |
+ LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE,
};

Because we may not know which kernel version an application will be executed
@@ -140,6 +141,10 @@ version, and only use the available subset of access rights:
ruleset_attr.handled_access_net &=
~(LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_BIND_UDP |
LANDLOCK_ACCESS_NET_CONNECT_SEND_UDP);
+ __attribute__((fallthrough));
+ case 10:
+ /* Removes LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE for ABI < 11 */
+ ruleset_attr.scoped &= ~LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE;
}

This enables the creation of an inclusive ruleset that will contain our rules.
@@ -420,6 +425,10 @@ The operations which can be scoped are:
A :manpage:`sendto(2)` on a socket which was previously connected will not
be restricted. This works for both datagram and stream sockets.

+``LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE``
+ This limits opening POSIX message queues to queues created by a process in
+ the same or a nested Landlock domain.
+
IPC scoping does not support exceptions via :manpage:`landlock_add_rule(2)`.
If an operation is scoped within a domain, no rules can be added to allow access
to resources or processes outside of the scope.
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h b/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
index 96d0c3b423ac..21ba31ad4d4b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/landlock.h
@@ -478,7 +478,9 @@ struct landlock_net_port_attr {
* Setting a flag for a ruleset will isolate the Landlock domain to forbid
* connections to resources outside the domain.
*
- * This is supported since Landlock ABI version 6.
+ * This is supported since Landlock ABI version 6. The
+ * %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE scope is supported since Landlock ABI version
+ * 11.
*
* Scopes:
*
@@ -487,6 +489,8 @@ struct landlock_net_port_attr {
* related Landlock domain (e.g., a parent domain or a non-sandboxed process).
* - %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SIGNAL: Restrict a sandboxed process from sending a signal
* to another process outside the domain.
+ * - %LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE: Restrict a sandboxed process from opening
+ * a POSIX message queue created outside the domain.
*/
/* clang-format off */
#define LANDLOCK_SCOPE_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET (1ULL << 0)
--
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