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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-11 08:55:49 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-11 08:55:49 -0700 |
commit | f6f79190866d5b2d06a2114d673f91f54e7c7ce4 (patch) | |
tree | 025bc2ff00351c71a719cb5bc2aa3f59133400f6 /Documentation/keys.txt | |
parent | 0d03d59d9b31cd1e33b7e46a80b6fef66244b1f2 (diff) | |
parent | a3c8b97396ef42edfb845788ba6f53b2a93ce980 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (57 commits)
binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
TPM: Fixup boot probe timeout for tpm_tis driver
sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs
LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information.
VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.
KEYS: Add missing linux/tracehook.h #inclusions
KEYS: Fix default security_session_to_parent()
Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
KEYS: security_cred_alloc_blank() should return int under all circumstances
IMA: open new file for read
KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6]
KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups [try #6]
KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [try #6]
KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]
KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED [try #6]
KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm [try #6]
KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [try #6]
CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
selinux: Support for the new TUN LSM hooks
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/keys.txt')
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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index b56aacc1fff..e4dbbdb1bd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This document has the following sections: - Notes on accessing payload contents - Defining a key type - Request-key callback service - - Key access filesystem + - Garbage collection ============ @@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Each key has a number of attributes: (*) Dead. The key's type was unregistered, and so the key is now useless. +Keys in the last three states are subject to garbage collection. See the +section on "Garbage collection". + ==================== KEY SERVICE OVERVIEW @@ -754,6 +757,26 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: successful. + (*) Install the calling process's session keyring on its parent. + + long keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT); + + This functions attempts to install the calling process's session keyring + on to the calling process's parent, replacing the parent's current session + keyring. + + The calling process must have the same ownership as its parent, the + keyring must have the same ownership as the calling process, the calling + process must have LINK permission on the keyring and the active LSM module + mustn't deny permission, otherwise error EPERM will be returned. + + Error ENOMEM will be returned if there was insufficient memory to complete + the operation, otherwise 0 will be returned to indicate success. + + The keyring will be replaced next time the parent process leaves the + kernel and resumes executing userspace. + + =============== KERNEL SERVICES =============== @@ -1231,3 +1254,17 @@ by executing: In this case, the program isn't required to actually attach the key to a ring; the rings are provided for reference. + + +================== +GARBAGE COLLECTION +================== + +Dead keys (for which the type has been removed) will be automatically unlinked +from those keyrings that point to them and deleted as soon as possible by a +background garbage collector. + +Similarly, revoked and expired keys will be garbage collected, but only after a +certain amount of time has passed. This time is set as a number of seconds in: + + /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay |