Re: [PATCH 3/3] KEYS: Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:14:42 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys files:
> 
>  (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys
>      /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes
> 
>      Maximum number of keys that root may have and the maximum total number of
>      bytes of data that root may have stored in those keys.
> 
>  (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys
>      /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes
> 
>      Maximum number of keys that each non-root user may have and the maximum
>      total number of bytes of data that each of those users may have stored in
>      their keys.
> 
> Also increase the quotas as a number of people have been complaining that it's
> not big enough.  I'm not sure that it's big enough now either, but on the
> other hand, it can now be set in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/key.h      |    5 +++++
>  kernel/sysctl.c          |    9 +++++++++
>  security/keys/Makefile   |    1 +
>  security/keys/internal.h |   14 ++++++++++----
>  security/keys/key.c      |   23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>  security/keys/keyctl.c   |   12 +++++++++---
>  security/keys/proc.c     |    9 ++++++---
>  7 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Documentation/keys.txt needs an update?