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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-06-29 02:24:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-29 10:26:20 -0700
commit4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96 (patch)
tree0cd9d982e5bb25abcb9251d26c36ff11e7dc81a5 /security/keys/internal.h
parent94583779e6625154e8d7fce33d097ae7d089e9de (diff)
downloadlinux-4e54f08543d05e519e601368571cc3787fefae96.tar.gz
[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>
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diff --git a/security/keys/internal.h b/security/keys/internal.h
index 3c2877f0663e..1bb416f4bbce 100644
--- a/security/keys/internal.h
+++ b/security/keys/internal.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ extern int install_process_keyring(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
 					const char *description,
 					const char *callout_info,
+					void *aux,
 					struct key *dest_keyring,
 					unsigned long flags);