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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-07-18 18:56:34 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-07-18 18:56:34 +0100
commit6a09d17bb66a533c165be81e8a4c3557f68e1a3b (patch)
treed56b7ce27813ea9ab20ae1f22236af76b5390d6a /security
parent32c2e6752ff0f48fe03b9e1c7c64bde580a840d2 (diff)
downloadlinux-6a09d17bb66a533c165be81e8a4c3557f68e1a3b.tar.bz2
KEYS: Provide a generic instantiation function
Provide a generic instantiation function for key types that use the preparse hook. This makes it easier to prereserve key quota before keyrings get locked to retain the new key. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/key.c30
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
index 2048a110e7f1..7c9acbf106b6 100644
--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -1024,6 +1024,36 @@ void key_invalidate(struct key *key)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(key_invalidate);
/**
+ * generic_key_instantiate - Simple instantiation of a key from preparsed data
+ * @key: The key to be instantiated
+ * @prep: The preparsed data to load.
+ *
+ * Instantiate a key from preparsed data. We assume we can just copy the data
+ * in directly and clear the old pointers.
+ *
+ * This can be pointed to directly by the key type instantiate op pointer.
+ */
+int generic_key_instantiate(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ pr_devel("==>%s()\n", __func__);
+
+ ret = key_payload_reserve(key, prep->quotalen);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ key->type_data.p[0] = prep->type_data[0];
+ key->type_data.p[1] = prep->type_data[1];
+ rcu_assign_keypointer(key, prep->payload);
+ prep->type_data[0] = NULL;
+ prep->type_data[1] = NULL;
+ prep->payload = NULL;
+ }
+ pr_devel("<==%s() = %d\n", __func__, ret);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_key_instantiate);
+
+/**
* register_key_type - Register a type of key.
* @ktype: The new key type.
*