Hi Mimi, Dmitry, Here's a series of patches, the last three of which attempt to fix up a problem with encrypted keys update method. The preceding patches are fixes or are preparatory for other changes that I want to put underneath.
I really want to make all key types use ->preparse() to avoid a deadlock in the garbage collector with quota recycling, but encrypted_update() requires access to the old key - which you can't have in ->preparse() because the keyring isn't locked (and this lock is the root of the gc deadlock anyway). Further, the existence of encrypted_update() means that add_key() will sometimes get things wrong with encrypted keys (add_key() will call ->update() if a matching key already exists rather than creating a new key). But you can't pre-search for the existence of a key and mould the payload accordingly because that means you can race against both add_key() and keyctl_unlink(). My solution is to add a new keyctl function that allows the caller to perform a type-specific operation on a key: long keyctl_control(key_serial_t key_id, const char *command, char *reply_buffer, size_t reply_size); This would then take a NUL-terminated string indicating the command and arguments and potentially return a reply up to the buffer length. For instance: keyctl_control(1234, "encrypted change-master-key fred's key", NULL, 0); or, from the shell: keyctl control 1234 "encrypted change-master-key fred's key" (I think that requiring the command string to be prefixed with the expected key type is probably a good idea). The control op could also be used for other things like pushing a key into a TPM. What do you think? David --- David Howells (9): KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB KEYS: Provide a generic instantiation function KEYS: struct key_preparsed_payload should have two payload pointers KEYS: Allow expiry time to be set when preparsing a key KEYS: Call ->free_preparse() even after ->preparse() returns an error KEYS: Trusted: Use key preparsing KEYS: Add a keyctl function to alter/control a key in type-dependent way KEYS: Implement keyctl control for encrypted keys KEYS: Fix encrypted key type update method Documentation/security/keys.txt | 48 +++++++- crypto/asymmetric_keys/Kconfig | 1 crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c | 27 ---- crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c | 2 include/linux/key-type.h | 11 ++ include/uapi/linux/keyctl.h | 1 security/keys/compat.c | 6 + security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 111 +++++++++++++----- security/keys/internal.h | 2 security/keys/key.c | 49 +++++++- security/keys/keyctl.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++ security/keys/trusted.c | 190 ++++++++++++++---------------- 12 files changed, 385 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/