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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2009-09-02 12:13:45 +0400 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-09-02 15:29:04 +0400 |
| commit | 5593122eec26b061cc0b6fbff32118f1aadf4a27 (patch) | |
| tree | f148b182ada54b722962607567bd5b1ace06640a /security/keys/key.c | |
| parent | e0e817392b9acf2c98d3be80c233dddb1b52003d (diff) | |
| download | linux-5593122eec26b061cc0b6fbff32118f1aadf4a27.tar.xz | |
KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [try #6]
Allow keys for which the key type has been removed to be unlinked. Currently
dead-type keys can only be disposed of by completely clearing the keyrings
that point to them.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys/key.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/keys/key.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c index 4a1297d1ada4..3762d5b1ce64 100644 --- a/security/keys/key.c +++ b/security/keys/key.c @@ -642,10 +642,8 @@ struct key *key_lookup(key_serial_t id) goto error; found: - /* pretend it doesn't exist if it's dead */ - if (atomic_read(&key->usage) == 0 || - test_bit(KEY_FLAG_DEAD, &key->flags) || - key->type == &key_type_dead) + /* pretend it doesn't exist if it is awaiting deletion */ + if (atomic_read(&key->usage) == 0) goto not_found; /* this races with key_put(), but that doesn't matter since key_put() |