KEYS: Allow expiry time to be set when preparsing a key
Allow a key type's preparsing routine to set the expiry time for a key.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index a4c33f1..315cf96 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -1150,20 +1150,24 @@
const void *data;
size_t datalen;
size_t quotalen;
+ time_t expiry;
};
Before calling the method, the caller will fill in data and datalen with
the payload blob parameters; quotalen will be filled in with the default
- quota size from the key type and the rest will be cleared.
+ quota size from the key type; expiry will be set to TIME_T_MAX and the
+ rest will be cleared.
If a description can be proposed from the payload contents, that should be
attached as a string to the description field. This will be used for the
key description if the caller of add_key() passes NULL or "".
The method can attach anything it likes to type_data[] and payload. These
- are merely passed along to the instantiate() or update() operations.
+ are merely passed along to the instantiate() or update() operations. If
+ set, the expiry time will be applied to the key if it is instantiated from
+ this data.
- The method should return 0 if success ful or a negative error code
+ The method should return 0 if successful or a negative error code
otherwise.