CONFIG_KEYS_REQUEST_CACHE: Enable temporary caching of the last request_key() result

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_KEYS_REQUEST_CACHE:

• prompt: Enable temporary caching of the last request_key() result
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KEYS
• defined in security/keys/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.3–5.19, 6.0–6.11, 6.12-rc+HEAD

Help text

This option causes the result of the last successful request_key() call that didn't upcall to the kernel to be cached temporarily in the task_struct. The cache is cleared by exit and just prior to the resumption of userspace.

This allows the key used for multiple step processes where each step wants to request a key that is likely the same as the one requested by the last step to save on the searching.

An example of such a process is a pathwalk through a network filesystem in which each method needs to request an authentication key. Pathwalk will call multiple methods for each dentry traversed (permission, d_revalidate, lookup, getxattr, getacl, ...).

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• (none)

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

Automatic links from Google (and ads)

Custom Search

Popular queries: