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David Howells ee18d64c1f KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent.  This
replaces the parent's session keyring.  Because the COW credential code does
not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again.  Normally this
will be after a wait*() syscall.

To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
the process may replace its parent's session keyring.

The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.

Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.  This allows the
replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
execution.

This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
alter the parent process's PAG membership.  However, since kAFS doesn't use
PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
the newpag flag.

This can be tested with the following program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>

	#define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT	18

	#define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		key_serial_t keyring, key;
		long ret;

		keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
		OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");

		key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
		OSERROR(key, "add_key");

		ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
		OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");

		return 0;
	}

Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:

	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	355907932 --alswrv   4043    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.4043
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	1055658746 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: hello
	340417692 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a

Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
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alpha KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
arm KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
avr32 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
blackfin blackfin: fix wrong CTS inversion 2009-07-20 16:38:44 -07:00
cris KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
frv KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
h8300 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
ia64 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
m32r KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
m68k mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68knommu Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats 2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
microblaze microblaze: Update Microblaze defconfigs 2009-08-18 11:05:11 +02:00
mips KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
mn10300 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
parisc KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-08-10 11:48:51 -07:00
s390 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
sh KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
sparc KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
um mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
x86 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
xtensa mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
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Kconfig gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00