guest-configs: enable Landlock LSM in 6.1 kernel configs#6004
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Enable CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=y and prepend "landlock," to CONFIG_LSM in the 6.1 guest kernel configs for both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Landlock is an unprivileged access control mechanism merged into mainline Linux in 5.13. It allows processes to restrict their own filesystem access without requiring privileges, complementing Firecracker's guest/host isolation boundary with fine-grained in-guest per-process sandboxing. Landlock is not available in the 5.10 kernel configs (predates 5.13) so those are left unchanged. The LSM ordering follows upstream Linux defaults, with "landlock" placed first in the initialization list. Resolves firecracker-microvm#5997 Signed-off-by: Aakash Chaudhary <aakashchoudhary66@gmail.com>
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Enable CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=y and prepend "landlock," to CONFIG_LSM in the 6.1 guest kernel configs for both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
Landlock is an unprivileged access control mechanism merged into mainline Linux in 5.13. It allows processes to restrict their own filesystem access without requiring privileges, complementing Firecracker's guest/host isolation boundary with fine-grained in-guest per-process sandboxing.
Landlock is not available in the 5.10 kernel configs (predates 5.13) so those are left unchanged.
The LSM ordering follows upstream Linux defaults, with "landlock" placed first in the initialization list.
Resolves #5997
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Enable
CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK=yand prepend"landlock,"toCONFIG_LSMin the 6.1 guest kernel configs for both x86_64 andaarch64 architectures.
Landlock is an unprivileged access control mechanism merged into
mainline Linux in 5.13. It allows processes to restrict their own
filesystem access without requiring privileges, complementing
Firecracker's guest/host isolation boundary with fine-grained
in-guest per-process sandboxing. Workloads running inside the
microVM can use Landlock to enforce least-privilege filesystem
access on individual processes — for example agent runtimes,
build systems, or semi-trusted code — without requiring root,
containers, or additional host configuration.
The 5.10 kernel configs are intentionally left unchanged since
Landlock was not available until kernel 5.13.
The LSM ordering follows upstream Linux defaults, with "landlock"
placed first in the initialization list per the kernel's own
security/Kconfigdefaults.Testing
This change modifies kernel config files only. The actual kernel
build and validation requires Firecracker's devtool build
environment with
resources/rebuild.sh. I have verified:CONFIG_SECURITY=yis present in both 6.1 configs (the onlydependency for
CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK)the 5.10 configs are correctly left unchanged
Resolves #5997
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