From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>,
Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"open list:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM"
<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:KEYS/KEYRINGS" <keyrings@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KEYS: Remove key_type_dead
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 14:21:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <auiAVx5DrjNSMSpS@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102121518.1197453-4-jarkko@kernel.org>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 02:15:14PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> unregister_key_type() no longer needs to retype live keys as keys and
> restrictions pin the module while they reference it.
>
> Remove key_type_dead and associated code from the keyring GC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
This was not too hard as I had just paid tons of time implementing
and benchmarking the chunk processing code, and I think these
features supplement quite nicely each other.
Br, Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-02 12:15 [RFC PATCH 0/4] KEYS: sanitize the garbage collector behavior Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] KEYS: trusted: Disable sysfs bind attributes for TEE driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:27 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-02 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] KEYS: Pin the backing module for struct key_type Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:32 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-02 12:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] KEYS: Remove key_type_dead Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2026-11-02 12:35 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-02 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] KEYS: key_garbage_collector(): process in chunks Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:32 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-02 13:34 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-02 12:19 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] KEYS: sanitize the garbage collector behavior Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-03 0:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-03 0:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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