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    Merge tag 'landlock_v34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security · 17ae69ab
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull Landlock LSM from James Morris:
     "Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün.
    
      Briefly, Landlock provides for unprivileged application sandboxing.
    
      From Mickaël's cover letter:
        "The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g.
         global filesystem access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock
         is a stackable LSM [1], it makes possible to create safe security
         sandboxes as new security layers in addition to the existing
         system-wide access-controls. This kind of sandbox is expected to
         help mitigate the security impact of bugs or unexpected/malicious
         behaviors in user-space applications. Landlock empowers any
         process, including unprivileged ones, to securely restrict
         themselves.
    
         Landlock is inspired by seccomp-bpf but instead of filtering
         syscalls and their raw arguments, a Landlock rule can restrict the
         use of kernel objects...
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