keys: add keyctl function to get a security label

Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key.

The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt:

 (*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer,
		    size_t buflen)

     This function returns a string that represents the LSM security context
     attached to a key in the buffer provided.

     Unless there's an error, it always returns the amount of data it could
     produce, even if that's too big for the buffer, but it won't copy more
     than requested to userspace. If the buffer pointer is NULL then no copy
     will take place.

     A NUL character is included at the end of the string if the buffer is
     sufficiently big.  This is included in the returned count.  If no LSM is
     in force then an empty string will be returned.

     A process must have view permission on the key for this function to be
     successful.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare keyctl_get_security()]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells 2008-04-29 01:01:26 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4a38e122e2
commit 70a5bb72b5
9 changed files with 140 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -49,5 +49,6 @@
#define KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING 14 /* set default request-key keyring */
#define KEYCTL_SET_TIMEOUT 15 /* set key timeout */
#define KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY 16 /* assume request_key() authorisation */
#define KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY 17 /* get key security label */
#endif /* _LINUX_KEYCTL_H */