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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-01-08 04:02:47 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 23:13:53 -0500
commitb5f545c880a2a47947ba2118b2509644ab7a2969 (patch)
tree8720e02262b0ff6309ae79603f6c63965296d378 /include/linux/key.h
parentcab8eb594e84b434d20412fc5a3985b0bee3ab9f (diff)
[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys
Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4. The patch makes the following changes: (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance. The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation name are passed to the method. (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in /proc/pid/cmdline. This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no longer there. A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow. (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this key will retrieve the information. (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the lowest level of the session keyring. This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and so is usable in multithreaded programs. The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec. (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings. This function can also clear the assumption. (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY). (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if instantiation is successful. (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the file of permissions functions. (9) The documentation is updated. From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Build fix. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/key.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/key.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 4d189e51bc6c..cbf464ad9589 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ struct key {
177/* 177/*
178 * kernel managed key type definition 178 * kernel managed key type definition
179 */ 179 */
180typedef int (*request_key_actor_t)(struct key *key, struct key *authkey, const char *op);
181
180struct key_type { 182struct key_type {
181 /* name of the type */ 183 /* name of the type */
182 const char *name; 184 const char *name;
@@ -218,6 +220,16 @@ struct key_type {
218 */ 220 */
219 long (*read)(const struct key *key, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen); 221 long (*read)(const struct key *key, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen);
220 222
223 /* handle request_key() for this type instead of invoking
224 * /sbin/request-key (optional)
225 * - key is the key to instantiate
226 * - authkey is the authority to assume when instantiating this key
227 * - op is the operation to be done, usually "create"
228 * - the call must not return until the instantiation process has run
229 * its course
230 */
231 request_key_actor_t request_key;
232
221 /* internal fields */ 233 /* internal fields */
222 struct list_head link; /* link in types list */ 234 struct list_head link; /* link in types list */
223}; 235};