Commit 62c457528529 for kernel
commit 62c457528529cdcfa32bc52b331ceca10f3937b6
Merge: c60ebc3208b9 503b65da9a7e
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue Oct 27 08:01:30 2026 -1000
Merge tag 'vfs-7.4-rc1.keyring' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs keyring updates from Christian Brauner:
"The kernel has two keyrings that userspace fills with X.509
certificates at boot: .fs-verity for fs-verity built-in signatures
and .dm-verity for dm-verity root hash signatures.
Neither is linked into any process keyring. Hence, request_key() and
KEYCTL_SEARCH can't find them. The only way for userspace to identify
them is to read their serial number out of /proc/keys. That is not
just a large file often the names can also be reused and appear
multiple times which allows forging these keyrings.
This adds two fixed special key ids, KEY_SPEC_DM_VERITY_KEYRING and
KEY_SPEC_FS_VERITY_KEYRING next to KEY_SPEC_BPF_KEYRING. The latter
went in through bpf-next this merge window.
lookup_user_key() resolves the fixed key ids to the two keyrings. So
userspace can add a dm-verity (fixed keyring id: -10) certificate with
keyctl padd asymmetric "" -10 < cert.der
and seal the keyring with
keyctl restrict_keyring -10
without looking anything up first"
* tag 'vfs-7.4-rc1.keyring' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
Documentation: keys: document IDs added since KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY
keys: add KEY_SPEC_FS_VERITY_KEYRING
keys: add KEY_SPEC_DM_VERITY_KEYRING