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diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt index 8c183873b2b7..20d05719bceb 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt @@ -823,6 +823,36 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: A process must have search permission on the key for this function to be successful. + (*) Compute a Diffie-Hellman shared secret or public key + + long keyctl(KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE, struct keyctl_dh_params *params, + char *buffer, size_t buflen); + + The params struct contains serial numbers for three keys: + + - The prime, p, known to both parties + - The local private key + - The base integer, which is either a shared generator or the + remote public key + + The value computed is: + + result = base ^ private (mod prime) + + If the base is the shared generator, the result is the local + public key. If the base is the remote public key, the result is + the shared secret. + + The buffer length must be at least the length of the prime, or zero. + + If the buffer length is nonzero, the length of the result is + returned when it is successfully calculated and copied in to the + buffer. When the buffer length is zero, the minimum required + buffer length is returned. + + This function will return error EOPNOTSUPP if the key type is not + supported, error ENOKEY if the key could not be found, or error + EACCES if the key is not readable by the caller. =============== KERNEL SERVICES @@ -999,6 +1029,10 @@ payload contents" for more information. struct key *keyring_alloc(const char *description, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, const struct cred *cred, key_perm_t perm, + int (*restrict_link)(struct key *, + const struct key_type *, + unsigned long, + const union key_payload *), unsigned long flags, struct key *dest); @@ -1010,6 +1044,24 @@ payload contents" for more information. KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA in flags if the keyring shouldn't be accounted towards the user's quota). Error ENOMEM can also be returned. + If restrict_link not NULL, it should point to a function that will be + called each time an attempt is made to link a key into the new keyring. + This function is called to check whether a key may be added into the keying + or not. Callers of key_create_or_update() within the kernel can pass + KEY_ALLOC_BYPASS_RESTRICTION to suppress the check. An example of using + this is to manage rings of cryptographic keys that are set up when the + kernel boots where userspace is also permitted to add keys - provided they + can be verified by a key the kernel already has. + + When called, the restriction function will be passed the keyring being + added to, the key flags value and the type and payload of the key being + added. Note that when a new key is being created, this is called between + payload preparsing and actual key creation. The function should return 0 + to allow the link or an error to reject it. + + A convenience function, restrict_link_reject, exists to always return + -EPERM to in this case. + (*) To check the validity of a key, this function can be called: |