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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2026-08-14 15:43:51 -0700
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Merge branches 'expcb.2026.07.24a', 'misc.2026.07.30a', 'rcu-tasks.2026.07.30a', 'srcu.2026.08.11a' and 'torture.2026.08.14a' into HEADgrafted
Changes: Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks Miscellaneous fixes: * Improve diagnostic output with character task states. * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design. * Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj(). * Documentation updates. * Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states. * Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields. * Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space. Tasks RCU updates: * Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU. * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design. * Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output. * Remove an unnecessary memory barrier. * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN. * Documentation updates. * Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline function. SRCU updates: * Add Rust helpers for SRCU. * Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time. Torture-test updates: * Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting. * Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to softirq). * Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap(). * Improve diagnostic output with character task states. * Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall testing, and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier. * Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period. * Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches. * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN. * Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure.
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+#
+# Key management configuration
+#
+
+menuconfig KEYS
+ bool "Enable access key retention support"
+ select ASSOCIATIVE_ARRAY
+ help
+ This option provides support for retaining authentication tokens and
+ access keys in the kernel.
+
+ It also includes provision of methods by which such keys might be
+ associated with a process so that network filesystems, encryption
+ support and the like can find them.
+
+ Furthermore, a special type of key is available that acts as keyring:
+ a searchable sequence of keys. Each process is equipped with access
+ to five standard keyrings: UID-specific, GID-specific, session,
+ process and thread.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+if KEYS
+
+config KEYS_REQUEST_CACHE
+ bool "Enable temporary caching of the last request_key() result"
+ help
+ This option causes the result of the last successful request_key()
+ call that didn't upcall to the kernel to be cached temporarily in the
+ task_struct. The cache is cleared by exit and just prior to the
+ resumption of userspace.
+
+ This allows the key used for multiple step processes where each step
+ wants to request a key that is likely the same as the one requested
+ by the last step to save on the searching.
+
+ An example of such a process is a pathwalk through a network
+ filesystem in which each method needs to request an authentication
+ key. Pathwalk will call multiple methods for each dentry traversed
+ (permission, d_revalidate, lookup, getxattr, getacl, ...).
+
+config PERSISTENT_KEYRINGS
+ bool "Enable register of persistent per-UID keyrings"
+ help
+ This option provides a register of persistent per-UID keyrings,
+ primarily aimed at Kerberos key storage. The keyrings are persistent
+ in the sense that they stay around after all processes of that UID
+ have exited, not that they survive the machine being rebooted.
+
+ A particular keyring may be accessed by either the user whose keyring
+ it is or by a process with administrative privileges. The active
+ LSMs gets to rule on which admin-level processes get to access the
+ cache.
+
+ Keyrings are created and added into the register upon demand and get
+ removed if they expire (a default timeout is set upon creation).
+
+config BIG_KEYS
+ bool "Large payload keys"
+ depends on TMPFS
+ select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305
+ help
+ This option provides support for holding large keys within the kernel
+ (for example Kerberos ticket caches). The data may be stored out to
+ swapspace by tmpfs.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config TRUSTED_KEYS
+ tristate "TRUSTED KEYS"
+ help
+ This option provides support for creating, sealing, and unsealing
+ keys in the kernel. Trusted keys are random number symmetric keys,
+ generated and sealed by a trust source selected at kernel boot-time.
+ Userspace will only ever see encrypted blobs.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+if TRUSTED_KEYS
+source "security/keys/trusted-keys/Kconfig"
+endif
+
+config ENCRYPTED_KEYS
+ tristate "ENCRYPTED KEYS"
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_AES
+ select CRYPTO_CBC
+ select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256
+ help
+ This option provides support for create/encrypting/decrypting keys
+ in the kernel. Encrypted keys are instantiated using kernel
+ generated random numbers or provided decrypted data, and are
+ encrypted/decrypted with a 'master' symmetric key. The 'master'
+ key can be either a trusted-key or user-key type. Only encrypted
+ blobs are ever output to Userspace.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config USER_DECRYPTED_DATA
+ bool "Allow encrypted keys with user decrypted data"
+ depends on ENCRYPTED_KEYS
+ help
+ This option provides support for instantiating encrypted keys using
+ user-provided decrypted data. The decrypted data must be hex-ascii
+ encoded.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config KEY_DH_OPERATIONS
+ bool "Diffie-Hellman operations on retained keys"
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_KDF800108_CTR
+ select CRYPTO_DH
+ help
+ This option provides support for calculating Diffie-Hellman
+ public keys and shared secrets using values stored as keys
+ in the kernel.
+
+ If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N.
+
+config KEY_NOTIFICATIONS
+ bool "Provide key/keyring change notifications"
+ depends on WATCH_QUEUE
+ help
+ This option provides support for getting change notifications
+ on keys and keyrings on which the caller has View permission.
+ This makes use of pipes to handle the notification buffer and
+ provides KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY to enable/disable watches.
+
+endif # KEYS