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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 /include/linux
parent94583779e6625154e8d7fce33d097ae7d089e9de (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/key.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/key.h b/include/linux/key.h
index e693e729bc9..169f05e4863 100644
--- a/include/linux/key.h
+++ b/include/linux/key.h
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ struct key {
/*
* kernel managed key type definition
*/
-typedef int (*request_key_actor_t)(struct key *key, struct key *authkey, const char *op);
+typedef int (*request_key_actor_t)(struct key *key, struct key *authkey,
+ const char *op, void *aux);
struct key_type {
/* name of the type */
@@ -285,6 +286,11 @@ extern struct key *request_key(struct key_type *type,
const char *description,
const char *callout_info);
+extern struct key *request_key_with_auxdata(struct key_type *type,
+ const char *description,
+ const char *callout_info,
+ void *aux);
+
extern int key_validate(struct key *key);
extern key_ref_t key_create_or_update(key_ref_t keyring,