Re: [PATCH] KEYS: Allow special keyrings to be cleared

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Jan 18 2012 - 23:03:37 EST


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, David Howells wrote:

> The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS
> resolver keyring :
>
> 2a93faf1 I----- 1 perm 1f030000 0 0 keyring .dns_resolver: empty
>
> It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be
> flushed by root (cache invalidation).
>

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-queue
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