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 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [ver #2]
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:39:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090804233906.GA17407@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090804203938.25094.21014.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Quoting David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com):
> Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. This involved
> erasing all links to such keys from keyrings that point to them. At that
> point, the key will be deleted in the normal manner.
>
> Keyrings from which garbage collection occurs are shrunk and their quota
> consumption reduced as appropriate.
>
> Dead keys (for which the key type has been removed) will be garbage collected
> immediately.
>
> Revoked and expired keys will hang around for a number of seconds, as set in
> /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay before being automatically removed. The default
> is 5 minutes.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-04 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 20:39 [PATCH 1/6] KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [ver #2] David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm " David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED " David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. " David Howells
2009-08-04 23:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2009-08-05 0:29 ` James Morris
2009-08-05 9:40 ` David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position " David Howells
2009-08-05 22:59 ` James Morris
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups " David Howells
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