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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-07-17 20:45:08 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2014-07-17 20:45:08 +0100
commit0c7774abb41bd00d5836d9ba098825a40fa94133 (patch)
treed3c6cb9e81dd798b7383ed47a5fd5499b772a3ea /include/linux/key.h
parentb6b8a371f5541c2b839caba84fede693f3fcc43d (diff)
KEYS: Allow special keys (eg. DNS results) to be invalidated by CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Special kernel keys, such as those used to hold DNS results for AFS, CIFS and NFS and those used to hold idmapper results for NFS, used to be 'invalidateable' with key_revoke(). However, since the default permissions for keys were reduced: Commit: 96b5c8fea6c0861621051290d705ec2e971963f1 KEYS: Reduce initial permissions on keys it has become impossible to do this. Add a key flag (KEY_FLAG_ROOT_CAN_INVAL) that will permit a key to be invalidated by root. This should not be used for system keyrings as the garbage collector will try and remove any invalidate key. For system keyrings, KEY_FLAG_ROOT_CAN_CLEAR can be used instead. After this, from userspace, keyctl_invalidate() and "keyctl invalidate" can be used by any possessor of CAP_SYS_ADMIN (typically root) to invalidate DNS and idmapper keys. Invalidated keys are immediately garbage collected and will be immediately rerequested if needed again. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index 017b0826642f..e37a4d807185 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ struct key {
#define KEY_FLAG_INVALIDATED 7 /* set if key has been invalidated */
#define KEY_FLAG_TRUSTED 8 /* set if key is trusted */
#define KEY_FLAG_TRUSTED_ONLY 9 /* set if keyring only accepts links to trusted keys */
+#define KEY_FLAG_ROOT_CAN_INVAL 11 /* set if key can be invalidated by root without permission */
/* the key type and key description string
* - the desc is used to match a key against search criteria