KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs

Implement a big key type that can save its contents to tmpfs and thus
swapspace when memory is tight.  This is useful for Kerberos ticket caches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/keys/big_key-type.h b/include/keys/big_key-type.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d69bc8af3292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/keys/big_key-type.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/* Big capacity key type.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _KEYS_BIG_KEY_TYPE_H
+#define _KEYS_BIG_KEY_TYPE_H
+
+#include <linux/key-type.h>
+
+extern struct key_type key_type_big_key;
+
+extern int big_key_instantiate(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);
+extern void big_key_revoke(struct key *key);
+extern void big_key_destroy(struct key *key);
+extern void big_key_describe(const struct key *big_key, struct seq_file *m);
+extern long big_key_read(const struct key *key, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen);
+
+#endif /* _KEYS_BIG_KEY_TYPE_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 2417f789d29b..010dbb618aca 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ struct key {
                         unsigned long           value;
                         void __rcu              *rcudata;
                         void                    *data;
+                        void                    *data2[2];
                 } payload;
                 struct assoc_array keys;
         };