linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Use keyring_alloc() to create module signing keyring

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Message-ID: <20121217131531.2974.66791.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:15:31 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.com
Cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Use keyring_alloc() to create module signing
 keyring

Use keyring_alloc() to create special keyrings now that it has a permissions
parameter rather than using key_alloc() + key_instantiate_and_link().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---

 kernel/modsign_pubkey.c |   15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/modsign_pubkey.c b/kernel/modsign_pubkey.c
index 767e559..524a56f 100644
--- a/kernel/modsign_pubkey.c
+++ b/kernel/modsign_pubkey.c
@@ -40,18 +40,15 @@ static __init int module_verify_init(void)
 {
 	pr_notice("Initialise module verification\n");
 
-	modsign_keyring = key_alloc(&key_type_keyring, ".module_sign",
-				    KUIDT_INIT(0), KGIDT_INIT(0),
-				    current_cred(),
-				    (KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
-				    KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ,
-				    KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA);
+	modsign_keyring = keyring_alloc(".module_sign",
+					KUIDT_INIT(0), KGIDT_INIT(0),
+					current_cred(),
+					((KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
+					 KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ),
+					KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(modsign_keyring))
 		panic("Can't allocate module signing keyring\n");
 
-	if (key_instantiate_and_link(modsign_keyring, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL) < 0)
-		panic("Can't instantiate module signing keyring\n");
-
 	return 0;
 }
 

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