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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2011-03-07 10:05:51 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-03-07 19:17:11 -0500
commit633e804e89464d3875e59de1959a53f9041d3094 (patch)
tree0a2464267c5f7a4e8166771fdc88e181a5b6219a /include/linux/key.h
parent1cc26bada9f6807814806db2f0d78792eecdac71 (diff)
KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
Add an RCU payload dereference macro as this seems to be a common piece of code amongst key types that use RCU referenced payloads. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/key.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/key.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 3db0adce1fda..a6b1edcffc34 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -275,6 +275,10 @@ static inline key_serial_t key_serial(struct key *key)
275 return key ? key->serial : 0; 275 return key ? key->serial : 0;
276} 276}
277 277
278#define rcu_dereference_key(KEY) \
279 (rcu_dereference_protected((KEY)->payload.rcudata, \
280 rwsem_is_locked(&((struct key *)(KEY))->sem)))
281
278#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL 282#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
279extern ctl_table key_sysctls[]; 283extern ctl_table key_sysctls[];
280#endif 284#endif