KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argument

Alter the use of the key instantiation and negation functions' link-to-keyring
arguments.  Currently this specifies a keyring in the target process to link
the key into, creating the keyring if it doesn't exist.  This, however, can be
a problem for copy-on-write credentials as it means that the instantiating
process can alter the credentials of the requesting process.

This patch alters the behaviour such that:

 (1) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given a specific
     keyring by ID (ringid >= 0), then that keyring will be used.

 (2) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given one of the
     special constants that refer to the requesting process's keyrings
     (KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING, all <= 0), then:

     (a) If sys_request_key() was given a keyring to use (destringid) then the
     	 key will be attached to that keyring.

     (b) If sys_request_key() was given a NULL keyring, then the key being
     	 instantiated will be attached to the default keyring as set by
     	 keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring().

 (3) No extra link will be made.

Decision point (1) follows current behaviour, and allows those instantiators
who've searched for a specifically named keyring in the requestor's keyring so
as to partition the keys by type to still have their named keyrings.

Decision point (2) allows the requestor to make sure that the key or keys that
get produced by request_key() go where they want, whilst allowing the
instantiator to request that the key is retained.  This is mainly useful for
situations where the instantiator makes a secondary request, the key for which
should be retained by the initial requestor:

	+-----------+        +--------------+        +--------------+
	|           |        |              |        |              |
	| Requestor |------->| Instantiator |------->| Instantiator |
	|           |        |              |        |              |
	+-----------+        +--------------+        +--------------+
	           request_key()           request_key()

This might be useful, for example, in Kerberos, where the requestor requests a
ticket, and then the ticket instantiator requests the TGT, which someone else
then has to go and fetch.  The TGT, however, should be retained in the
keyrings of the requestor, not the first instantiator.  To make this explict
an extra special keyring constant is also added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/keyctl.h b/include/linux/keyctl.h
index 656ee6b..c0688eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/keyctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/keyctl.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* keyctl.h: keyctl command IDs
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #define KEY_SPEC_USER_SESSION_KEYRING	-5	/* - key ID for UID-session keyring */
 #define KEY_SPEC_GROUP_KEYRING		-6	/* - key ID for GID-specific keyring */
 #define KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY	-7	/* - key ID for assumed request_key auth key */
+#define KEY_SPEC_REQUESTOR_KEYRING	-8	/* - key ID for request_key() dest keyring */
 
 /* request-key default keyrings */
 #define KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_NO_CHANGE		-1
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
 #define KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_USER_KEYRING		4
 #define KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_USER_SESSION_KEYRING	5
 #define KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_GROUP_KEYRING		6
+#define KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_REQUESTOR_KEYRING	7
 
 /* keyctl commands */
 #define KEYCTL_GET_KEYRING_ID		0	/* ask for a keyring's ID */