[PATCH] Keys: Allow in-kernel key requestor to pass auxiliary data to upcaller

The proposed NFS key type uses its own method of passing key requests to
userspace (upcalling) rather than invoking /sbin/request-key.  This is
because the responsible userspace daemon should already be running and will
be contacted through rpc_pipefs.

This patch permits the NFS filesystem to pass auxiliary data to the upcall
operation (struct key_type::request_key) so that the upcaller can use a
pre-existing communications channel more easily.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/security/keys/internal.h b/security/keys/internal.h
index 3c2877f0663e..1bb416f4bbce 100644
--- a/security/keys/internal.h
+++ b/security/keys/internal.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ extern int install_process_keyring(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
                                         const char *description,
                                         const char *callout_info,
+                                        void *aux,
                                         struct key *dest_keyring,
                                         unsigned long flags);