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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: 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, 4 Aug 2009 10:17:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090804151747.GA3698@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090804145535.17676.87650.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

Quoting David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com):
> Allow keyctl_revoke() to operate on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE
> permission, rather than only on keys that have WRITE permission.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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 :)

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

> ---
> 
>  security/keys/keyctl.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
> index b85ace2..1160b64 100644
> --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
> +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
> @@ -343,7 +343,13 @@ long keyctl_revoke_key(key_serial_t id)
>  	key_ref = lookup_user_key(id, 0, KEY_WRITE);
>  	if (IS_ERR(key_ref)) {
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(key_ref);
> -		goto error;
> +		if (ret != -EACCES)
> +			goto error;
> +		key_ref = lookup_user_key(id, 0, KEY_SETATTR);
> +		if (IS_ERR(key_ref)) {
> +			ret = PTR_ERR(key_ref);
> +			goto error;
> +		}
>  	}
> 
>  	key_revoke(key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref));

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 15:34 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 [this message]
2009-08-04 15:38     ` David Howells
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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