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author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-09-16 13:48:32 +0900 |
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committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-09-16 13:48:32 +0900 |
commit | ea88023b3491a384575ebcd5e8a449e841a28a24 (patch) | |
tree | f46e3d8302e44dc55ce31823501e100472d29683 /Documentation/keys.txt | |
parent | a6f15ade97989d414e9bf33874c9d5d1f39808ec (diff) | |
parent | 0cb583fd2862f19ea88b02eb307d11c09e51e2f8 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
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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 |