[PATCH] Keys: Allow in-kernel key requestor to pass auxiliary data to upcaller
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:24:28 +0000 (02:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:26:20 +0000 (10:26 -0700)
commit4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96
tree0cd9d982e5bb25abcb9251d26c36ff11e7dc81a5
parent94583779e6625154e8d7fce33d097ae7d089e9de
[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>
Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
Documentation/keys.txt
include/linux/key.h
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/keyctl.c
security/keys/request_key.c