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umh: creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init()

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call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change
subprocess_info->cred in advance.  Now that we have info->init() we can
change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing
kernel thread.

Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with
UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup()
are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred()
which does key_get() on success.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-26 14:43:00 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 898b374af6
commit 685bfd2c48
5 changed files with 34 additions and 37 deletions
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@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ extern struct key *find_keyring_by_name(const char *name, bool skip_perm_check);
extern int install_user_keyrings(void);
extern int install_thread_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *);
extern int install_process_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *);
extern int install_session_keyring_to_cred(struct cred *, struct key *);
extern struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
const char *description,