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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-10-20 10:41:44 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-10-20 10:41:44 -0700
commit9cec58dc138d6fcad9f447a19c8ff69f6540e667 (patch)
tree4fe1cca94fdba8b705c87615bee06d3346f687ce /Documentation/keys.txt
parent17e5ad6c0ce5a970e2830d0de8bdd60a2f077d38 (diff)
parentac9b9c667c2e1194e22ebe0a441ae1c37aaa9b90 (diff)
Update from upstream with manual merge of Yasunori Goto's
changes to swiotlb.c made in commit 281dd25cdc0d6903929b79183816d151ea626341 since this file has been moved from arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c to lib/swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt
index 0321ded4b9a..4afe03a58c5 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/keys.txt
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ KEY ACCESS PERMISSIONS
======================
Keys have an owner user ID, a group access ID, and a permissions mask. The mask
-has up to eight bits each for user, group and other access. Only five of each
-set of eight bits are defined. These permissions granted are:
+has up to eight bits each for possessor, user, group and other access. Only
+five of each set of eight bits are defined. These permissions granted are:
(*) View
@@ -241,16 +241,16 @@ about the status of the key service:
type, description and permissions. The payload of the key is not available
this way:
- SERIAL FLAGS USAGE EXPY PERM UID GID TYPE DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY
- 00000001 I----- 39 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid_ses.0: 1/4
- 00000002 I----- 2 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid.0: empty
- 00000007 I----- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.1: empty
- 0000018d I----- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.412: empty
- 000004d2 I--Q-- 1 perm 1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid.32: 1/4
- 000004d3 I--Q-- 3 perm 1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid_ses.32: empty
- 00000892 I--QU- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 user metal:copper: 0
- 00000893 I--Q-N 1 35s 1f0000 0 0 user metal:silver: 0
- 00000894 I--Q-- 1 10h 1f0000 0 0 user metal:gold: 0
+ SERIAL FLAGS USAGE EXPY PERM UID GID TYPE DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY
+ 00000001 I----- 39 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid_ses.0: 1/4
+ 00000002 I----- 2 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid.0: empty
+ 00000007 I----- 1 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.1: empty
+ 0000018d I----- 1 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.412: empty
+ 000004d2 I--Q-- 1 perm 1f1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid.32: 1/4
+ 000004d3 I--Q-- 3 perm 1f1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid_ses.32: empty
+ 00000892 I--QU- 1 perm 1f000000 0 0 user metal:copper: 0
+ 00000893 I--Q-N 1 35s 1f1f0000 0 0 user metal:silver: 0
+ 00000894 I--Q-- 1 10h 001f0000 0 0 user metal:gold: 0
The flags are:
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ The main syscalls are:
/sbin/request-key will be invoked in an attempt to obtain a key. The
callout_info string will be passed as an argument to the program.
+ See also Documentation/keys-request-key.txt.
+
The keyctl syscall functions are:
@@ -533,8 +535,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
(*) Read the payload data from a key:
- key_serial_t keyctl(KEYCTL_READ, key_serial_t keyring, char *buffer,
- size_t buflen);
+ long keyctl(KEYCTL_READ, key_serial_t keyring, char *buffer,
+ size_t buflen);
This function attempts to read the payload data from the specified key
into the buffer. The process must have read permission on the key to
@@ -555,9 +557,9 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
(*) Instantiate a partially constructed key.
- key_serial_t keyctl(KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE, key_serial_t key,
- const void *payload, size_t plen,
- key_serial_t keyring);
+ long keyctl(KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE, key_serial_t key,
+ const void *payload, size_t plen,
+ key_serial_t keyring);
If the kernel calls back to userspace to complete the instantiation of a
key, userspace should use this call to supply data for the key before the
@@ -576,8 +578,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
(*) Negatively instantiate a partially constructed key.
- key_serial_t keyctl(KEYCTL_NEGATE, key_serial_t key,
- unsigned timeout, key_serial_t keyring);
+ long keyctl(KEYCTL_NEGATE, key_serial_t key,
+ unsigned timeout, key_serial_t keyring);
If the kernel calls back to userspace to complete the instantiation of a
key, userspace should use this call mark the key as negative before the
@@ -637,6 +639,34 @@ call, and the key released upon close. How to deal with conflicting keys due to
two different users opening the same file is left to the filesystem author to
solve.
+Note that there are two different types of pointers to keys that may be
+encountered:
+
+ (*) struct key *
+
+ This simply points to the key structure itself. Key structures will be at
+ least four-byte aligned.
+
+ (*) key_ref_t
+
+ This is equivalent to a struct key *, but the least significant bit is set
+ if the caller "possesses" the key. By "possession" it is meant that the
+ calling processes has a searchable link to the key from one of its
+ keyrings. There are three functions for dealing with these:
+
+ key_ref_t make_key_ref(const struct key *key,
+ unsigned long possession);
+
+ struct key *key_ref_to_ptr(const key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ unsigned long is_key_possessed(const key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ The first function constructs a key reference from a key pointer and
+ possession information (which must be 0 or 1 and not any other value).
+
+ The second function retrieves the key pointer from a reference and the
+ third retrieves the possession flag.
+
When accessing a key's payload contents, certain precautions must be taken to
prevent access vs modification races. See the section "Notes on accessing
payload contents" for more information.
@@ -660,12 +690,18 @@ payload contents" for more information.
If successful, the key will have been attached to the default keyring for
implicitly obtained request-key keys, as set by KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING.
+ See also Documentation/keys-request-key.txt.
+
(*) When it is no longer required, the key should be released using:
void key_put(struct key *key);
- This can be called from interrupt context. If CONFIG_KEYS is not set then
+ Or:
+
+ void key_ref_put(key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ These can be called from interrupt context. If CONFIG_KEYS is not set then
the argument will not be parsed.
@@ -689,13 +725,17 @@ payload contents" for more information.
(*) If a keyring was found in the search, this can be further searched by:
- struct key *keyring_search(struct key *keyring,
- const struct key_type *type,
- const char *description)
+ key_ref_t keyring_search(key_ref_t keyring_ref,
+ const struct key_type *type,
+ const char *description)
This searches the keyring tree specified for a matching key. Error ENOKEY
- is returned upon failure. If successful, the returned key will need to be
- released.
+ is returned upon failure (use IS_ERR/PTR_ERR to determine). If successful,
+ the returned key will need to be released.
+
+ The possession attribute from the keyring reference is used to control
+ access through the permissions mask and is propagated to the returned key
+ reference pointer if successful.
(*) To check the validity of a key, this function can be called:
@@ -732,7 +772,7 @@ More complex payload contents must be allocated and a pointer to them set in
key->payload.data. One of the following ways must be selected to access the
data:
- (1) Unmodifyable key type.
+ (1) Unmodifiable key type.
If the key type does not have a modify method, then the key's payload can
be accessed without any form of locking, provided that it's known to be