Allow a user to call into the file system and ask to destroy FS credentials. For instance, when the user logs out after using a kerberized NFS share, he destroys Kerberos credentials but NFS credentials remain valid until the gss context expires. Allow the user (or things like pam) to trigger destruction of such credentials. A userland application would do: fd = open("/mnt", O_DIRECTORY|O_RDONLY); syscall(_NR_destroy_creds, fd); v2: fixing a hasty IS_DIR check, definition of __NR_destroy_creds and order of the patches v3: * changing error codes in VFS return ENOSYS for when destroy_creds is not defined in VFS return EBADF if file descriptor is wrong return 0 is success (before I had 1 as success and 0 as failure) in SUNRPC patch, when credentials are not found return ENOENT not EACCES * including man page Olga Kornievskaia (3): VFS adding destroy_creds call SUNRPC mark user credentials destroyed NFS define vfs destroy_creds functions arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + fs/nfs/dir.c | 8 ++++++++ fs/read_write.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h | 5 +++++ include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +- include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +++- kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/auth.c | 9 +++++++++ net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 3 +++ 12 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1