KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:46 +0000 (23:29 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:57 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
commit76181c134f87479fa13bf2548ddf2999055d34d4
tree34694341c190e7ecdd3111ee48e4b98602ff012f
parent398c95bdf2c24d7866692a40ba04425aef238cdd
KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous

Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous to make it easier for
NFS to make use of them.  There are now accessor functions that do
asynchronous constructions, a wait function to wait for construction to
complete, and a completion function for the key type to indicate completion
of construction.

Note that the construction queue is now gone.  Instead, keys under
construction are linked in to the appropriate keyring in advance, and that
anyone encountering one must wait for it to be complete before they can use
it.  This is done automatically for userspace.

The following auxiliary changes are also made:

 (1) Key type implementation stuff is split from linux/key.h into
     linux/key-type.h.

 (2) AF_RXRPC provides a way to allocate null rxrpc-type keys so that AFS does
     not need to call key_instantiate_and_link() directly.

 (3) Adjust the debugging macros so that they're -Wformat checked even if
     they are disabled, and make it so they can be enabled simply by defining
     __KDEBUG to be consistent with other code of mine.

 (3) Documentation.

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: keys: missing word in documentation]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 files changed:
Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
Documentation/keys.txt
Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
fs/afs/cell.c
include/keys/rxrpc-type.h
include/linux/key-type.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/key.h
net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
net/rxrpc/ar-key.c
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/key.c
security/keys/process_keys.c
security/keys/request_key.c
security/keys/request_key_auth.c