On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 16:07 +0000, David Howells wrote: 
> The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS
> resolver keyring :
> 
> 2a93faf1 I-----     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .dns_resolver: empty
> 
> It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be
> flushed by root (cache invalidation).
> 
> Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the
> sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to
> the keyring.
> 
> Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS
> identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>


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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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www.netapp.com

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