On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 16:07 +0000, David Howells wrote: > The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS > resolver keyring : > > 2a93faf1 I----- 1 perm 1f030000 0 0 keyring .dns_resolver: empty > > It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be > flushed by root (cache invalidation). > > Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the > sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to > the keyring. > > Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS > identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
