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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2006-06-29 02:24:28 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-29 10:26:20 -0700 |
commit | 4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96 (patch) | |
tree | 0cd9d982e5bb25abcb9251d26c36ff11e7dc81a5 /security/keys/internal.h | |
parent | 94583779e6625154e8d7fce33d097ae7d089e9de (diff) | |
download | linux-4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96.tar.bz2 |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys/internal.h')
-rw-r--r-- | security/keys/internal.h | 1 |
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); |