CONFIG_KEY_NOTIFICATIONS: Provide key/keyring change notifications

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_KEY_NOTIFICATIONS:

• prompt: Provide key/keyring change notifications
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KEYS && CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
• defined in security/keys/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.8–5.10, 5.11-rc+HEAD

Help text

This option provides support for getting change notifications on keys and keyrings on which the caller has View permission. This makes use of the /dev/watch_queue misc device to handle the notification buffer and provides KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY to enable/disable watches.

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