Skip to content
Commit 8c0637e9 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells
Browse files

keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask



Since the meaning of combining the KEY_NEED_* constants is undefined, make
it so that you can't do that by turning them into an enum.

The enum is also given some extra values to represent special
circumstances, such as:

 (1) The '0' value is reserved and causes a warning to trap the parameter
     being unset.

 (2) The key is to be unlinked and we require no permissions on it, only
     the keyring, (this replaces the KEY_LOOKUP_FOR_UNLINK flag).

 (3) An override due to CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

 (4) An override due to an instantiation token being present.

 (5) The permissions check is being deferred to later key_permission()
     calls.

The extra values give the opportunity for LSMs to audit these situations.

[Note: This really needs overhauling so that lookup_user_key() tells
 key_task_permission() and the LSM what operation is being done and leaves
 it to those functions to decide how to map that onto the available
 permits.  However, I don't really want to make these change in the middle
 of the notifications patchset.]

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
parent e7d553d6
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment