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diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index b56aacc1fff8..203487e9b1d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This document has the following sections: - Notes on accessing payload contents - Defining a key type - Request-key callback service - - Key access filesystem + - Garbage collection ============ @@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Each key has a number of attributes: (*) Dead. The key's type was unregistered, and so the key is now useless. +Keys in the last three states are subject to garbage collection. See the +section on "Garbage collection". + ==================== KEY SERVICE OVERVIEW @@ -1231,3 +1234,17 @@ by executing: In this case, the program isn't required to actually attach the key to a ring; the rings are provided for reference. + + +================== +GARBAGE COLLECTION +================== + +Dead keys (for which the type has been removed) will be automatically unlinked +from those keyrings that point to them and deleted as soon as possible by a +background garbage collector. + +Similarly, revoked and expired keys will be garbage collected, but only after a +certain amount of time has passed. This time is set as a number of seconds in: + + /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay |