destroy_creds() is a new system call for destroying file system
credentials. This is usefulf for file systems that manage its
own security contexts that were bootstrapped via some user land
credentials (such as Kerberos).
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
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+.\"This manpage is Copyright (C) 2015 Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
+.\"
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+.\"
+.TH COPY 2 2017-08-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+destroy_creds \- destroy current user's file system credentials for a mount point
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/syscall.h>
+.B #include <unistd.h>
+
+.BI "int destroy_creds(int " fd ");
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.BR destroy ()
+system call performs destruction of file system credentials for the current
+user. It identifies the file system by the supplied file descriptor in
+.I fd
+that represents a mount point.
+
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+Upon successful completion,
+.BR destroy_creds ()
+will return 0.
+
+On error,
+.BR destroy_creds ()
+returns \-1 and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+.I fd
+file descriptor is not valid
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+if the input file descriptor is not a directory
+.TP
+.B ENOENT
+no credentials found
+.TP
+.B EACCES
+unable to access credentials
+.TP
+.B ENOSYS
+file system does not implement destroy_creds() functionality
+.SH VERSIONS
+The
+.BR destroy_creds ()
+system call first appeared in Linux 4.1?.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+The
+.BR destroy_creds ()
+system call is a nonstandard Linux extension.
+.SH NOTES
+
+.BR destroy_creds ()
+gives filesystems an opportunity to destroy credentials. For instance,
+NFS uses Kerberos credentials stored in Kerberos credential cache to
+create its security contexts that then are stored and managed by the
+kernel. Once the user logs out and destroys Kerberos credentials via
+kdestroy, NFS security contexts associate with that user are valid
+until they expire. fslogout application such provided by the example
+allows the user driven credential destruction in the file system.
+
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.nf
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+static int
+destroy_creds(int fd)
+{
+ return syscall(__NR_destroy_creds, fd);
+}
+
+int
+main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int fd, ret;
+
+ if (argc != 2) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <mount point>\\n", argv[0]);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ fd = open(argv[1], O_DIRECTORY|O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd == \-1) {
+ perror("open (argv[1])");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ ret = destroy_creds(fd);
+ if (ret == \-1) {
+ perror("destroy_creds");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ close(fd);
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+.fi
--
1.8.3.1
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