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David Howells 76181c134f 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>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
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keys KEYS: Make request_key() and co fundamentally asynchronous 2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
selinux SELinux: kills warnings in Improve SELinux performance when AVC misses 2007-10-17 08:59:36 +10:00
capability.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
commoncap.c fix NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory() 2007-08-22 19:52:45 -07:00
dummy.c SELinux: Improve read/write performance 2007-10-17 08:59:31 +10:00
inode.c remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed 2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] LSM: remove BSD secure level security module 2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] LSM: remove BSD secure level security module 2006-09-29 09:18:10 -07:00
root_plug.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
security.c security: unexport mmap_min_addr 2007-07-11 22:52:33 -04:00