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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2005-10-07 16:04:52 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-08 23:53:31 +0200
commitf1a9badcf6ecad9975240d94514721cb93932151 (patch)
treedc37fe427d645dd84331b7385523b39efa41ffad /security
parent[PATCH] key: plug request_key_auth memleak (diff)
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[PATCH] Keys: Add request-key process documentation
The attached patch adds documentation for the process by which request-key works, including how it permits helper processes to gain access to the requestor's keyrings. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/request_key.c2
-rw-r--r--security/keys/request_key_auth.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index e6dd366d43a3..5cc4bba70db6 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
index f80a501e27f1..a8e4069d48cb 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
*/
#include <linux/module.h>