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-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/Smack.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys.txt17
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
index a416479b8a1c..8a177e4b6e21 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ Smack kernels use the CIPSO IP option. Some network
configurations are intolerant of IP options and can impede
access to systems that use them as Smack does.
-The current git repositories for Smack user space are:
+The current git repository for Smack user space is:
- git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/smackutil.git
- git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/libsmack.git
+ git://github.com/smack-team/smack.git
-These should make and install on most modern distributions.
+This should make and install on most modern distributions.
There are three commands included in smackutil:
smackload - properly formats data for writing to /smack/load
@@ -194,6 +193,9 @@ onlycap
these capabilities are effective at for processes with any
label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the
file or cleared by writing "-" to the file.
+revoke-subject
+ Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access
+ rules with that subject label.
You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form:
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index 7d9ca92022d8..7b4145d00452 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -994,6 +994,23 @@ payload contents" for more information.
reference pointer if successful.
+(*) A keyring can be created by:
+
+ struct key *keyring_alloc(const char *description, uid_t uid, gid_t gid,
+ const struct cred *cred,
+ key_perm_t perm,
+ unsigned long flags,
+ struct key *dest);
+
+ This creates a keyring with the given attributes and returns it. If dest
+ is not NULL, the new keyring will be linked into the keyring to which it
+ points. No permission checks are made upon the destination keyring.
+
+ Error EDQUOT can be returned if the keyring would overload the quota (pass
+ 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.
+
+
(*) To check the validity of a key, this function can be called:
int validate_key(struct key *key);