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@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ KEY ACCESS PERMISSIONS
======================
Keys have an owner user ID, a group access ID, and a permissions mask. The mask
-has up to eight bits each for user, group and other access. Only five of each
-set of eight bits are defined. These permissions granted are:
+has up to eight bits each for possessor, user, group and other access. Only
+five of each set of eight bits are defined. These permissions granted are:
(*) View
@@ -241,16 +241,16 @@ about the status of the key service:
type, description and permissions. The payload of the key is not available
this way:
- SERIAL FLAGS USAGE EXPY PERM UID GID TYPE DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY
- 00000001 I----- 39 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid_ses.0: 1/4
- 00000002 I----- 2 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid.0: empty
- 00000007 I----- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.1: empty
- 0000018d I----- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.412: empty
- 000004d2 I--Q-- 1 perm 1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid.32: 1/4
- 000004d3 I--Q-- 3 perm 1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid_ses.32: empty
- 00000892 I--QU- 1 perm 1f0000 0 0 user metal:copper: 0
- 00000893 I--Q-N 1 35s 1f0000 0 0 user metal:silver: 0
- 00000894 I--Q-- 1 10h 1f0000 0 0 user metal:gold: 0
+ SERIAL FLAGS USAGE EXPY PERM UID GID TYPE DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY
+ 00000001 I----- 39 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid_ses.0: 1/4
+ 00000002 I----- 2 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _uid.0: empty
+ 00000007 I----- 1 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.1: empty
+ 0000018d I----- 1 perm 1f1f0000 0 0 keyring _pid.412: empty
+ 000004d2 I--Q-- 1 perm 1f1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid.32: 1/4
+ 000004d3 I--Q-- 3 perm 1f1f0000 32 -1 keyring _uid_ses.32: empty
+ 00000892 I--QU- 1 perm 1f000000 0 0 user metal:copper: 0
+ 00000893 I--Q-N 1 35s 1f1f0000 0 0 user metal:silver: 0
+ 00000894 I--Q-- 1 10h 001f0000 0 0 user metal:gold: 0
The flags are:
@@ -637,6 +637,34 @@ call, and the key released upon close. How to deal with conflicting keys due to
two different users opening the same file is left to the filesystem author to
solve.
+Note that there are two different types of pointers to keys that may be
+encountered:
+
+ (*) struct key *
+
+ This simply points to the key structure itself. Key structures will be at
+ least four-byte aligned.
+
+ (*) key_ref_t
+
+ This is equivalent to a struct key *, but the least significant bit is set
+ if the caller "possesses" the key. By "possession" it is meant that the
+ calling processes has a searchable link to the key from one of its
+ keyrings. There are three functions for dealing with these:
+
+ key_ref_t make_key_ref(const struct key *key,
+ unsigned long possession);
+
+ struct key *key_ref_to_ptr(const key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ unsigned long is_key_possessed(const key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ The first function constructs a key reference from a key pointer and
+ possession information (which must be 0 or 1 and not any other value).
+
+ The second function retrieves the key pointer from a reference and the
+ third retrieves the possession flag.
+
When accessing a key's payload contents, certain precautions must be taken to
prevent access vs modification races. See the section "Notes on accessing
payload contents" for more information.
@@ -665,7 +693,11 @@ payload contents" for more information.
void key_put(struct key *key);
- This can be called from interrupt context. If CONFIG_KEYS is not set then
+ Or:
+
+ void key_ref_put(key_ref_t key_ref);
+
+ These can be called from interrupt context. If CONFIG_KEYS is not set then
the argument will not be parsed.
@@ -689,13 +721,17 @@ payload contents" for more information.
(*) If a keyring was found in the search, this can be further searched by:
- struct key *keyring_search(struct key *keyring,
- const struct key_type *type,
- const char *description)
+ key_ref_t keyring_search(key_ref_t keyring_ref,
+ const struct key_type *type,
+ const char *description)
This searches the keyring tree specified for a matching key. Error ENOKEY
- is returned upon failure. If successful, the returned key will need to be
- released.
+ is returned upon failure (use IS_ERR/PTR_ERR to determine). If successful,
+ the returned key will need to be released.
+
+ The possession attribute from the keyring reference is used to control
+ access through the permissions mask and is propagated to the returned key
+ reference pointer if successful.
(*) To check the validity of a key, this function can be called:
@@ -732,7 +768,7 @@ More complex payload contents must be allocated and a pointer to them set in
key->payload.data. One of the following ways must be selected to access the
data:
- (1) Unmodifyable key type.
+ (1) Unmodifiable key type.
If the key type does not have a modify method, then the key's payload can
be accessed without any form of locking, provided that it's known to be