linux/arch/avr32/kernel
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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.gitignore avr32: add .gitignore files 2008-09-19 18:21:29 +02:00
asm-offsets.c avr32: Fix lockup after Java stack underflow in user mode 2008-09-01 13:04:04 +02:00
avr32_ksyms.c avr32: add generic_find_next_le_bit bit function 2008-09-19 18:21:30 +02:00
cpu.c sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function 2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
entry-avr32b.S KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:19 +10:00
head.S
init_task.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
irq.c sparseirq: use kstat_irqs_cpu on non-x86 architectures too 2009-01-12 20:01:12 +01:00
kprobes.c
Makefile Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
module.c module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries. 2009-06-12 21:47:05 +09:30
nmi_debug.c
ocd.c
process.c ptrace: remove PT_DTRACE from avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa 2009-06-18 13:03:48 -07:00
ptrace.c
setup.c avr32: added mem kernel command line option support 2008-09-22 09:51:01 +02:00
signal.c KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] 2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
stacktrace.c fix core/stacktrace changes on avr32, mips, sh 2008-07-18 14:42:35 +02:00
switch_to.S
sys_avr32.c avr32: Introducing asm/syscalls.h 2008-12-17 13:32:38 +01:00
syscall_table.S avr32: fix sys_sync_file_range() call convention 2008-09-19 18:21:31 +02:00
syscall-stubs.S avr32: Fix out-of-range rcalls in large kernels 2009-01-16 09:31:57 +01:00
time.c clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callback 2009-04-21 13:41:47 -07:00
traps.c Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats 2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
vmlinux.lds.S Merge branch 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-07-14 15:28:10 -07:00