Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:47:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] KEYS: Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys |
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:14:42 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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> > --- > > include/linux/key.h | 5 +++++ > kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ > security/keys/Makefile | 1 + > security/keys/internal.h | 14 ++++++++++---- > security/keys/key.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- > security/keys/keyctl.c | 12 +++++++++--- > security/keys/proc.c | 9 ++++++--- > 7 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Documentation/keys.txt needs an update?
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