keys: Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions

Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions so that it
will become possible to provide an RCU-capable partial re

keys: Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions

Move the RCU locks outwards from the keyring search functions so that it
will become possible to provide an RCU-capable partial request_key()
function in a later commit.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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keys: Fix dependency loop between construction record and auth key

In the request_key() upcall mechanism there's a dependency loop by which if
a key type driver overrides the ->request_key hook and

keys: Fix dependency loop between construction record and auth key

In the request_key() upcall mechanism there's a dependency loop by which if
a key type driver overrides the ->request_key hook and the userspace side
manages to lose the authorisation key, the auth key and the internal
construction record (struct key_construction) can keep each other pinned.

Fix this by the following changes:

(1) Killing off the construction record and using the auth key instead.

(2) Including the operation name in the auth key payload and making the
payload available outside of security/keys/.

(3) The ->request_key hook is given the authkey instead of the cons
record and operation name.

Changes (2) and (3) allow the auth key to naturally be cleaned up if the
keyring it is in is destroyed or cleared or the auth key is unlinked.

Fixes: 7ee02a316600 ("keys: Fix dependency loop between construction record and auth key")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]>

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