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[PATCH] keys: Discard duplicate keys from a keyring on link

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Cause any links within a keyring to keys that match a key to be linked into
that keyring to be discarded as a link to the new key is added.  The match is
contingent on the type and description strings being the same.

This permits requests, adds and searches to displace negative, expired,
revoked and dead keys easily.  After some discussion it was concluded that
duplicate valid keys should probably be discarded also as they would otherwise
hide the new key.

Since request_key() is intended to be the primary method by which keys are
added to a keyring, duplicate valid keys wouldn't be an issue there as that
function would return an existing match in preference to creating a new key.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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David Howells 2006-01-08 01:02:45 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -500,6 +500,10 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
The link procedure checks the nesting of the keyrings, returning ELOOP if
it appears too deep or EDEADLK if the link would introduce a cycle.
Any links within the keyring to keys that match the new key in terms of
type and description will be discarded from the keyring as the new one is
added.
(*) Unlink a key or keyring from another keyring: