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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, jmorris@namei.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:38:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18269.1249400306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090804151747.GA3698@us.ibm.com>

Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Code seems to match the comment, and I see no docs saying this (SETATTR
> implies revoke) shouldn't be the case, so I guess that call is purely
> up to you :)

Without this, you can't revoke keys that don't have an update method.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04 14:55 [PATCH 1/6] KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately David Howells
2009-08-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm David Howells
2009-08-04 15:17   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 15:38     ` David Howells [this message]
2009-08-04 15:43       ` David Howells
2009-08-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED David Howells
2009-08-04 18:22   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys David Howells
2009-08-04 18:43   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 20:30     ` David Howells
2009-08-04 21:01       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 22:00         ` David Howells
2009-08-04 22:33           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position David Howells
2009-08-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups David Howells
2009-08-04 18:46   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately Serge E. Hallyn

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