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authorWang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>2010-08-04 18:16:33 +0400
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2010-08-05 21:17:51 +0400
commit1a4240f4764ac78adbf4b0ebb49b3bd8c72ffa11 (patch)
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downloadlinux-1a4240f4764ac78adbf4b0ebb49b3bd8c72ffa11.tar.xz
DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code
Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS filesystem module. This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys can be retained in keyrings. Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive description that is of the form "[<type>:]<domain_name>". The optional <type> indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The <domain_name> is the query to be made. If <type> isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution. The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function, which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This part remains in the CIFS module for now. See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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+/* DNS resolver key type
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Wang Lei. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by Wang Lei (wang840925@gmail.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _KEYS_DNS_RESOLVER_TYPE_H
+#define _KEYS_DNS_RESOLVER_TYPE_H
+
+#include <linux/key-type.h>
+
+extern struct key_type key_type_dns_resolver;
+
+extern int request_dns_resolver_key(const char *description,
+ const char *callout_info,
+ char **data);
+
+#endif /* _KEYS_DNS_RESOLVER_TYPE_H */