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: 5.8–5.19, 6.0–6.5, 6.6-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 pipes to handle the notification buffer and provides KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY to enable/disable watches.

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