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| author |   David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2019-06-19 16:10:15 +0100 |
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2019-06-19 16:10:15 +0100 |
| commit | e59428f721ee096d8a020504ea908a6f0d952735 (patch) | |
| tree | 4efe82c08f4a65a5a8834a7b75f831569e03c3ba /Documentation/security | |
| parent | keys: Invalidate used request_key authentication keys (diff) | |
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keys: Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions
Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions so that it
will become possible to provide an RCU-capable partial request_key()
function in a later commit.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst index 600ad67d1707..07af991463b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ The Search Algorithm A search of any particular keyring proceeds in the following fashion: - 1) When the key management code searches for a key (keyring_search_aux) it + 1) When the key management code searches for a key (keyring_search_rcu) it firstly calls key_permission(SEARCH) on the keyring it's starting with, if this denies permission, it doesn't search further. |