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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-04-29 01:01:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 08:06:17 -0700
commit0b77f5bfb45c13e1e5142374f9d6ca75292252a4 (patch)
treecf62055536d267e9a4abe6518e5d9f683a1ceb75 /Documentation/keys.txt
parent69664cf16af4f31cd54d77948a4baf9c7e0ca7b9 (diff)
keys: make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys
Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys files: (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes Maximum number of keys that root may have and the maximum total number of bytes of data that root may have stored in those keys. (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes Maximum number of keys that each non-root user may have and the maximum total number of bytes of data that each of those users may have stored in their keys. Also increase the quotas as a number of people have been complaining that it's not big enough. I'm not sure that it's big enough now either, but on the other hand, it can now be set in /etc/sysctl.conf. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <kwc@citi.umich.edu> Cc: <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in> Cc: <dwalsh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ The key service provides a number of features besides keys:
amount of description and payload space that can be consumed.
The user can view information on this and other statistics through procfs
- files.
+ files. The root user may also alter the quota limits through sysctl files
+ (see the section "New procfs files").
Process-specific and thread-specific keyrings are not counted towards a
user's quota.
@@ -329,6 +330,27 @@ about the status of the key service:
<bytes>/<max> Key size quota
+Four new sysctl files have been added also for the purpose of controlling the
+quota limits on keys:
+
+ (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys
+ /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes
+
+ These files hold the maximum number of keys that root may have and the
+ maximum total number of bytes of data that root may have stored in those
+ keys.
+
+ (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys
+ /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes
+
+ These files hold the maximum number of keys that each non-root user may
+ have and the maximum total number of bytes of data that each of those
+ users may have stored in their keys.
+
+Root may alter these by writing each new limit as a decimal number string to
+the appropriate file.
+
+
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USERSPACE SYSTEM CALL INTERFACE
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