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{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://github.com/mjbommar/linux-ioctl-census-paper/data/schema.json",
"title": "Linux IOCTL Census -- public structural tier",
"description": "JSON-Schema describing the PUBLIC structural release tier of the Linux IOCTL Census. Mirrors the export allowlist in the engine (tools/linux_ioctl/export_census_release.py) and the DuckDB DDL in bot/linux_ioctl_kb/schema.py. Only tables/columns derivable from already-public kernel source appear here; the targeting tier (taint_sinks, handler_enrichment, bugclass_hits, findings, functions, call_edges, extraction_runs) is withheld and MUST NOT appear. Schema-compatible with the Windows IOCTL Census: identical table and column names so the corpora are query-compatible. Linux concession: every *_va column is a stable 64-bit id (hash of the kg USR), and human location lives in companion name/file/line columns with loc_kind in {symbol, site}; imagebase is 0.",
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["kb_meta", "binaries", "dispatchers", "ioctl_codes", "handlers", "gates"],
"properties": {
"kb_meta": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Key/value provenance. Includes schema_version and release_tier=public-structural.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["key", "value"],
"properties": {
"key": {"type": "string"},
"value": {"type": "string"}
}
}
},
"binaries": {
"type": "array",
"description": "One row per analyzed module. 'binaries' name retained for query-compatibility with the Windows KB; on Linux a row is a kernel module/built-in source unit.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["sha256", "name"],
"properties": {
"sha256": {"type": "string", "description": "Content hash, primary key."},
"name": {"type": "string", "description": "Module name (e.g. ipmi_devintf)."},
"corpus": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Corpus tag for the extraction run."},
"build": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Build identifier (kernel tag/config)."},
"arch": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Architecture (e.g. x86_64)."},
"driver_type": {"type": ["string", "null"], "enum": ["char_dev", "blockdev", "sysfs", "proc", null], "description": "Surface class of the module's registration."},
"device_names": {"type": ["array", "null"], "items": {"type": "string"}, "description": "Device node names where recovered (node DAC coverage is partial; see data dictionary)."},
"device_sddl": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Gate summary. On Linux holds 'caps:CAP_...' when a hard init-ns capability gate is on the ioctl path."},
"user_reachable": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "Static verdict: ioctl path has no hard init-ns capability gate (heuristic; see PLAN node-DAC caveat)."},
"in_threat_model": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "True unless the module is out of the kernel's documented threat model (e.g. staging)."},
"out_of_model_reason": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Why a module is out of model (e.g. 'staging')."},
"n_dispatchers": {"type": ["integer", "null"]},
"n_codes": {"type": ["integer", "null"]},
"n_handlers": {"type": ["integer", "null"]},
"surface_recovered": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "True if a dispatch surface was recovered for this module."},
"rel_path": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Tree-relative source path (e.g. drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c)."},
"subtree": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Coverage subtree label (e.g. drivers-misc)."},
"staging": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "True if under drivers/staging."}
}
}
},
"dispatchers": {
"type": "array",
"description": "One row per ioctl dispatch entry point (file_operations.unlocked_ioctl / compat_ioctl / proc_ops.proc_ioctl etc.).",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["sha256", "dispatcher_va"],
"properties": {
"sha256": {"type": "string"},
"dispatcher_va": {"type": "integer", "description": "Stable 64-bit id (hash of kg USR), NOT a load address. imagebase=0."},
"role": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Dispatcher role classification."},
"name": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Function symbol name."},
"file": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
"line": {"type": ["integer", "null"]},
"ops_struct": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Owning ops struct (e.g. file_operations)."},
"ops_field": {"type": ["string", "null"], "enum": ["unlocked_ioctl", "compat_ioctl", "ioctl", "proc_ioctl", null], "description": "Ops-struct field the dispatcher fills."}
}
}
},
"ioctl_codes": {
"type": "array",
"description": "One row per decoded ioctl command code. Decoded via the _IOC resolver: access direction, _IOC_TYPE, _IOC_NR, _IOC_SIZE, arg-struct type.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["sha256", "dispatcher_va", "code"],
"properties": {
"sha256": {"type": "string"},
"dispatcher_va": {"type": "integer"},
"code": {"type": "integer", "description": "The 32-bit ioctl command number."},
"device_type": {"type": ["integer", "null"], "description": "_IOC_TYPE (the magic byte)."},
"method": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Windows-schema parity field; usually null on Linux."},
"access": {"type": ["string", "null"], "enum": ["r", "w", "rw", "none", null], "description": "_IOC_DIR decoded."},
"function_code": {"type": ["integer", "null"], "description": "_IOC_NR (the command ordinal)."},
"cmd_symbol": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "The macro/symbol the case label resolved from (e.g. FS_IOC_GETFLAGS)."},
"ioc_size": {"type": ["integer", "null"], "description": "_IOC_SIZE in bytes."},
"arg_struct_type": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Decoded argument struct type where recoverable."}
}
}
},
"handlers": {
"type": "array",
"description": "One row per ioctl command handler (the per-command body reached from a dispatcher).",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["sha256", "handler_va"],
"properties": {
"sha256": {"type": "string"},
"handler_va": {"type": "integer", "description": "Stable 64-bit id (hash of kg USR)."},
"name": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
"reachable": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "Reachable from a dispatcher within the closure depth bound."},
"ioctl_distance": {"type": ["integer", "null"], "description": "Call-graph distance from the dispatcher."},
"file": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
"line": {"type": ["integer", "null"]}
}
}
},
"gates": {
"type": "array",
"description": "One row per permission gate on a handler's path. Capability checks, LSM hooks, f_mode/field checks, fd lookups.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": ["sha256", "handler_va", "gate_kind"],
"properties": {
"sha256": {"type": "string"},
"handler_va": {"type": "integer"},
"gate_kind": {"type": "string", "enum": ["cap_check", "lsm_hook", "field_check", "fd_lookup", "protocol_state_check"], "description": "The gate class."},
"cap_constant": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "The CAP_* constant for cap_check gates."},
"mask_constant": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "The f_mode / field mask for field_check gates."},
"is_hard_gate": {"type": ["boolean", "null"], "description": "True if the gate hard-blocks unprivileged reach in init-ns."},
"gate_ns": {"type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Namespace the gate is evaluated in."},
"file": {"type": ["string", "null"]},
"line": {"type": ["integer", "null"]}
}
}
}
}
}