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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-03-14 17:44:49 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-03-14 17:44:49 +0000
commitf5895943d91b41b0368830cdb6eaffb8eda0f4c8 (patch)
tree7f2306521dae27b9beb0be25942d27ee6d9a328a /include/linux/key.h
parentc60f7d5a8e7c639de5d9dfe07e1e91d302d506e4 (diff)
KEYS: Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h
Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h as the perm parameter of security_key_permission() is in terms of them - and not the permissions mask flags used in key->perm. Whilst we're at it: (1) Rename them to be KEY_NEED_xxx rather than KEY_xxx to avoid collisions with symbols in uapi/linux/input.h. (2) Don't use key_perm_t for a mask of required permissions, but rather limit it to the permissions mask attached to the key and arguments related directly to that. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/key.h')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 80d677483e31..cd0abb8c9c33 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -309,6 +309,17 @@ static inline key_serial_t key_serial(const struct key *key)
extern void key_set_timeout(struct key *, unsigned);
+/*
+ * The permissions required on a key that we're looking up.
+ */
+#define KEY_NEED_VIEW 0x01 /* Require permission to view attributes */
+#define KEY_NEED_READ 0x02 /* Require permission to read content */
+#define KEY_NEED_WRITE 0x04 /* Require permission to update / modify */
+#define KEY_NEED_SEARCH 0x08 /* Require permission to search (keyring) or find (key) */
+#define KEY_NEED_LINK 0x10 /* Require permission to link */
+#define KEY_NEED_SETATTR 0x20 /* Require permission to change attributes */
+#define KEY_NEED_ALL 0x3f /* All the above permissions */
+
/**
* key_is_instantiated - Determine if a key has been positively instantiated
* @key: The key to check.