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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-01-08 01:02:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:53 -0800
commit017679c4d45783158dba1dd6f79e712c22bb3d9a (patch)
treea536f0b581eacd88a64077f5ff15b29d23fc6405 /security/keys/keyctl.c
parentcd140a5c1f456f50897af4a2e9a23d228a5fe719 (diff)
[PATCH] keys: Permit key expiry time to be set
Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys/keyctl.c')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/keyctl.c44
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index b7a468fabdf..299f0ae11cf 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -967,6 +967,46 @@ long keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(int reqkey_defl)
/*****************************************************************************/
/*
+ * set or clear the timeout for a key
+ */
+long keyctl_set_timeout(key_serial_t id, unsigned timeout)
+{
+ struct timespec now;
+ struct key *key;
+ key_ref_t key_ref;
+ time_t expiry;
+ long ret;
+
+ key_ref = lookup_user_key(NULL, id, 1, 1, KEY_SETATTR);
+ if (IS_ERR(key_ref)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(key_ref);
+ goto error;
+ }
+
+ key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
+
+ /* make the changes with the locks held to prevent races */
+ down_write(&key->sem);
+
+ expiry = 0;
+ if (timeout > 0) {
+ now = current_kernel_time();
+ expiry = now.tv_sec + timeout;
+ }
+
+ key->expiry = expiry;
+
+ up_write(&key->sem);
+ key_put(key);
+
+ ret = 0;
+error:
+ return ret;
+
+} /* end keyctl_set_timeout() */
+
+/*****************************************************************************/
+/*
* the key control system call
*/
asmlinkage long sys_keyctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
@@ -1038,6 +1078,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_keyctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
case KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING:
return keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(arg2);
+ case KEYCTL_SET_TIMEOUT:
+ return keyctl_set_timeout((key_serial_t) arg2,
+ (unsigned) arg3);
+
default:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}