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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2019-06-26 22:02:33 +0200
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2019-06-28 00:02:12 +0200
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treee655258b700359cdfd9f762c099b7587dc0eed9b /Documentation/security
parentkeys: Network namespace domain tag (diff)
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keys: Pass the network namespace into request_key mechanism
Create a request_key_net() function and use it to pass the network namespace domain tag into DNS revolver keys and rxrpc/AFS keys so that keys for different domains can coexist in the same keyring. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys/core.rst28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst29
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
index ae930ae9d590..0e74f372e58c 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
@@ -1102,26 +1102,42 @@ payload contents" for more information.
See also Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst.
+ * To search for a key in a specific domain, call:
+
+ struct key *request_key_tag(const struct key_type *type,
+ const char *description,
+ struct key_tag *domain_tag,
+ const char *callout_info);
+
+ This is identical to request_key(), except that a domain tag may be
+ specifies that causes search algorithm to only match keys matching that
+ tag. The domain_tag may be NULL, specifying a global domain that is
+ separate from any nominated domain.
+
+
* To search for a key, passing auxiliary data to the upcaller, call::
struct key *request_key_with_auxdata(const struct key_type *type,
const char *description,
+ struct key_tag *domain_tag,
const void *callout_info,
size_t callout_len,
void *aux);
- This is identical to request_key(), except that the auxiliary data is
- passed to the key_type->request_key() op if it exists, and the callout_info
- is a blob of length callout_len, if given (the length may be 0).
+ This is identical to request_key_tag(), except that the auxiliary data is
+ passed to the key_type->request_key() op if it exists, and the
+ callout_info is a blob of length callout_len, if given (the length may be
+ 0).
* To search for a key under RCU conditions, call::
struct key *request_key_rcu(const struct key_type *type,
- const char *description);
+ const char *description,
+ struct key_tag *domain_tag);
- which is similar to request_key() except that it does not check for keys
- that are under construction and it will not call out to userspace to
+ which is similar to request_key_tag() except that it does not check for
+ keys that are under construction and it will not call out to userspace to
construct a key if it can't find a match.
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst
index 5a210baa583a..35f2296b704a 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@ The process starts by either the kernel requesting a service by calling
or::
+ struct key *request_key_tag(const struct key_type *type,
+ const char *description,
+ const struct key_tag *domain_tag,
+ const char *callout_info);
+
+or::
+
struct key *request_key_with_auxdata(const struct key_type *type,
const char *description,
+ const struct key_tag *domain_tag,
const char *callout_info,
size_t callout_len,
void *aux);
@@ -24,7 +32,8 @@ or::
or::
struct key *request_key_rcu(const struct key_type *type,
- const char *description);
+ const char *description,
+ const struct key_tag *domain_tag);
Or by userspace invoking the request_key system call::
@@ -38,14 +47,18 @@ does not need to link the key to a keyring to prevent it from being immediately
destroyed. The kernel interface returns a pointer directly to the key, and
it's up to the caller to destroy the key.
-The request_key_with_auxdata() calls is like the in-kernel request_key() call,
-except that they permit auxiliary data to be passed to the upcaller (the
-default is NULL). This is only useful for those key types that define their
-own upcall mechanism rather than using /sbin/request-key.
+The request_key_tag() call is like the in-kernel request_key(), except that it
+also takes a domain tag that allows keys to be separated by namespace and
+killed off as a group.
+
+The request_key_with_auxdata() calls is like the request_key_tag() call, except
+that they permit auxiliary data to be passed to the upcaller (the default is
+NULL). This is only useful for those key types that define their own upcall
+mechanism rather than using /sbin/request-key.
-The request_key_rcu() call is like the in-kernel request_key() call, except
-that it doesn't check for keys that are under construction and doesn't attempt
-to construct missing keys.
+The request_key_rcu() call is like the request_key_tag() call, except that it
+doesn't check for keys that are under construction and doesn't attempt to
+construct missing keys.
The userspace interface links the key to a keyring associated with the process
to prevent the key from going away, and returns the serial number of the key to