1. 22 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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      eCryptfs: make key module subsystem respect namespaces · 6a3fd92e
      Michael Halcrow 提交于
      Make eCryptfs key module subsystem respect namespaces.
      
      Since I will be removing the netlink interface in a future patch, I just made
      changes to the netlink.c code so that it will not break the build.  With my
      recent patches, the kernel module currently defaults to the device handle
      interface rather than the netlink interface.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export free_user_ns()]
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6a3fd92e
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      eCryptfs: integrate eCryptfs device handle into the module. · f66e883e
      Michael Halcrow 提交于
      Update the versioning information.  Make the message types generic.  Add an
      outgoing message queue to the daemon struct.  Make the functions to parse
      and write the packet lengths available to the rest of the module.  Add
      functions to create and destroy the daemon structs.  Clean up some of the
      comments and make the code a little more consistent with itself.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: printk fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f66e883e
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      eCryptfs: introduce device handle for userspace daemon communications · 8bf2debd
      Michael Halcrow 提交于
      A regular device file was my real preference from the get-go, but I went with
      netlink at the time because I thought it would be less complex for managing
      send queues (i.e., just do a unicast and move on).  It turns out that we do
      not really get that much complexity reduction with netlink, and netlink is
      more heavyweight than a device handle.
      
      In addition, the netlink interface to eCryptfs has been broken since 2.6.24.
      I am assuming this is a bug in how eCryptfs uses netlink, since the other
      in-kernel users of netlink do not seem to be having any problems.  I have had
      one report of a user successfully using eCryptfs with netlink on 2.6.24, but
      for my own systems, when starting the userspace daemon, the initial helo
      message sent to the eCryptfs kernel module results in an oops right off the
      bat.  I spent some time looking at it, but I have not yet found the cause.
      The netlink interface breaking gave me the motivation to just finish my patch
      to migrate to a regular device handle.  If I cannot find out soon why the
      netlink interface in eCryptfs broke, I am likely to just send a patch to
      disable it in 2.6.24 and 2.6.25.  I would like the device handle to be the
      preferred means of communicating with the userspace daemon from 2.6.26 on
      forward.
      
      This patch:
      
      Functions to facilitate reading and writing to the eCryptfs miscellaneous
      device handle.  This will replace the netlink interface as the preferred
      mechanism for communicating with the userspace eCryptfs daemon.
      
      Each user has his own daemon, which registers itself by opening the eCryptfs
      device handle.  Only one daemon per euid may be registered at any given time.
      The eCryptfs module sends a message to a daemon by adding its message to the
      daemon's outgoing message queue.  The daemon reads the device handle to get
      the oldest message off the queue.
      
      Incoming messages from the userspace daemon are immediately handled.  If the
      message is a response, then the corresponding process that is blocked waiting
      for the response is awakened.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8bf2debd