From 4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:24:28 -0700 Subject: [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 Acked-By: Kevin Coffman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- security/keys/internal.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'security/keys/internal.h') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3