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* [GIT] New Credentials API (preliminary patches for 2.6.27)
@ 2008-07-25 20:06 James Morris
  2008-07-29  0:48 ` [GIT] New Credentials API (preliminary patches for 2.6.27) [updated] James Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: James Morris @ 2008-07-25 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Stephen Rothwell, David Howells, Al Viro,
	linux-kernel

A new credentials framework has been developed by David Howells.  The code 
has been through several iterations of posting and review, and is 
considered by various folk to be ready to merge into linux-next.

The problem is that these changes touch a lot of code and it will be 
difficult to manage the volume of merge conflicts.  I tried doing so 
myself for a couple of weeks and there was non-trivial churn virtually 
each day.

It seems that this can be managed more readily if the API changes are 
merged upstream first as no-ops, as this is where most of the conflicts 
were happening.  The following patchset implements the no-op API changes, 
as well as a fix to the use of PF_SUPERPRIV which was part of the larger 
patchset but should also go in sooner rather than later.

Please pull.

The following changes since commit fb2e405fc1fc8b20d9c78eaa1c7fd5a297efde43:
  Adrian Bunk (1):
        fix fs/nfs/nfsroot.c compilation

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 for-linus

David Howells (7):
      Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
      KEYS: Disperse linux/key_ui.h
      KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argument
      CRED: Neuter sys_capset()
      CRED: Constify the kernel_cap_t arguments to the capset LSM hooks
      CRED: Change current->fs[ug]id to current_fs[ug]id()
      CRED: Wrap most current->e?[ug]id and some task->e?[ug]id

 arch/ia64/kernel/mca_drv.c                |    2 +-
 arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c                |   23 ++--
 arch/ia64/kernel/signal.c                 |    4 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c          |    5 +-
 arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c               |    2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c                   |    2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c |    4 +-
 arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c                   |    4 +-
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c                       |    2 +-
 drivers/block/loop.c                      |    6 +-
 drivers/char/tty_audit.c                  |    6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c                |    2 +-
 drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c                |    4 +-
 drivers/media/video/cpia.c                |    2 +-
 drivers/net/tun.c                         |    4 +-
 drivers/net/wan/sbni.c                    |    9 +-
 drivers/usb/core/devio.c                  |    8 +-
 drivers/usb/core/inode.c                  |    4 +-
 fs/9p/fid.c                               |    2 +-
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/9p/vfs_super.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/affs/inode.c                           |    4 +-
 fs/affs/super.c                           |    4 +-
 fs/anon_inodes.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/attr.c                                 |    4 +-
 fs/autofs/inode.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/autofs4/inode.c                        |    4 +-
 fs/autofs4/waitq.c                        |    4 +-
 fs/bfs/dir.c                              |    4 +-
 fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h                      |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/cifsproto.h                       |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/connect.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/cifs/dir.c                             |   12 +-
 fs/cifs/inode.c                           |    8 +-
 fs/cifs/ioctl.c                           |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/misc.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/coda/cache.c                           |    6 +-
 fs/coda/upcall.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/devpts/inode.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/dquot.c                                |    4 +-
 fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c                   |   18 ++-
 fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c                     |   20 ++-
 fs/exec.c                                 |   18 +-
 fs/ext2/balloc.c                          |    2 +-
 fs/ext2/ialloc.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/ext3/balloc.c                          |    2 +-
 fs/ext3/ialloc.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/ext4/balloc.c                          |    3 +-
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/fat/file.c                             |    2 +-
 fs/fat/inode.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/fcntl.c                                |    2 +-
 fs/fuse/dev.c                             |    4 +-
 fs/gfs2/inode.c                           |   10 +-
 fs/hfs/inode.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/hfs/super.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/hfsplus/inode.c                        |    4 +-
 fs/hfsplus/options.c                      |    4 +-
 fs/hpfs/namei.c                           |   24 ++--
 fs/hpfs/super.c                           |    4 +-
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c                      |   16 +-
 fs/inotify_user.c                         |    2 +-
 fs/ioprio.c                               |    4 +-
 fs/jffs2/fs.c                             |    4 +-
 fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c                        |    4 +-
 fs/locks.c                                |    2 +-
 fs/minix/bitmap.c                         |    4 +-
 fs/namei.c                                |   10 +-
 fs/namespace.c                            |    2 +-
 fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c                          |   91 +++++------
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c                             |    6 +-
 fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c                      |    8 +-
 fs/ocfs2/namei.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/open.c                                 |   12 +--
 fs/pipe.c                                 |    4 +-
 fs/posix_acl.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c                     |    2 +-
 fs/quota.c                                |    4 +-
 fs/ramfs/inode.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/reiserfs/namei.c                       |    4 +-
 fs/smbfs/dir.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/smbfs/inode.c                          |    2 +-
 fs/smbfs/proc.c                           |    2 +-
 fs/sysv/ialloc.c                          |    4 +-
 fs/ubifs/budget.c                         |    2 +-
 fs/ubifs/dir.c                            |    4 +-
 fs/udf/ialloc.c                           |    4 +-
 fs/udf/namei.c                            |    2 +-
 fs/ufs/ialloc.c                           |    4 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h               |    2 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h              |    4 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c                          |    6 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c                         |    2 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c                        |    4 +-
 fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c                     |    8 +-
 include/keys/keyring-type.h               |   31 ++++
 include/linux/capability.h                |   15 ++-
 include/linux/cred.h                      |   50 ++++++
 include/linux/fs.h                        |    2 +-
 include/linux/key-ui.h                    |   66 --------
 include/linux/key.h                       |   18 +-
 include/linux/keyctl.h                    |    4 +-
 include/linux/sched.h                     |    1 +
 include/linux/security.h                  |   99 +++++++-----
 include/net/scm.h                         |    4 +-
 ipc/mqueue.c                              |    6 +-
 ipc/shm.c                                 |    5 +-
 ipc/util.c                                |   18 ++-
 kernel/acct.c                             |    7 +-
 kernel/auditsc.c                          |    6 +-
 kernel/capability.c                       |  248 +++++------------------------
 kernel/cgroup.c                           |    9 +-
 kernel/futex.c                            |    8 +-
 kernel/futex_compat.c                     |    3 +-
 kernel/kmod.c                             |    2 +-
 kernel/ptrace.c                           |   20 ++-
 kernel/sched.c                            |   11 +-
 kernel/signal.c                           |   15 +-
 kernel/sys.c                              |   16 +-
 kernel/sysctl.c                           |    2 +-
 kernel/timer.c                            |    8 +-
 kernel/user_namespace.c                   |    2 +-
 mm/mempolicy.c                            |    7 +-
 mm/migrate.c                              |    7 +-
 mm/oom_kill.c                             |    6 +-
 mm/shmem.c                                |    8 +-
 net/9p/client.c                           |    2 +-
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c                        |    2 +-
 net/ax25/ax25_route.c                     |    2 +-
 net/core/dev.c                            |    8 +-
 net/core/scm.c                            |    8 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c                  |    2 +-
 net/netrom/af_netrom.c                    |    4 +-
 net/rose/af_rose.c                        |    4 +-
 net/socket.c                              |    4 +-
 net/sunrpc/auth.c                         |    4 +-
 net/unix/af_unix.c                        |   11 +-
 security/capability.c                     |    3 +-
 security/commoncap.c                      |   80 +++++----
 security/keys/internal.h                  |   38 ++++-
 security/keys/key.c                       |    2 +-
 security/keys/keyctl.c                    |  120 +++++++++------
 security/keys/keyring.c                   |    1 +
 security/keys/process_keys.c              |   88 +++++++----
 security/keys/request_key.c               |   83 +++++++----
 security/keys/request_key_auth.c          |    7 +-
 security/root_plug.c                      |    3 +-
 security/security.c                       |   25 ++--
 security/selinux/hooks.c                  |   37 +++--
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c                |   49 ++++--
 150 files changed, 960 insertions(+), 904 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/keys/keyring-type.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/cred.h
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/key-ui.h


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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