Re: [PATCH 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys.

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

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

> These two lines (repeated below) beg for a helper?

Yeah...  Seems reasonable.

> Can this happen?  This implies that the number of live keys
> went up, but we're under keyring->sem?

An expired key can be updated back to life:

	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl  add user a a @s
	619170185
	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl timeout 619170185 5
	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl  show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
	627083299 --alswrv      0    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.0
	619170185 --alswrv      0     0   \_ user: a
	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl  show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
	627083299 --alswrv      0    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.0
	619170185: key inaccessible (Key has expired)
	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl  add user a a @s
	619170185
	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl  show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
	627083299 --alswrv      0    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.0
	619170185 --alswrv      0     0   \_ user: a

> > +		.data = &key_gc_delay,
> 
> I see where this variable is defined at top of the patch, but
> I don't see where it is actually used?

Bah!  I forgot to add gc.c to the mix.  Sorry about that.

David