From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Oops.  Here's a copy of the patch *with* sysctl.c.  Note that I've folded the
doc updates patch into this one.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Cc: <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/keys.txt |   24 +++++++++++++++++-
 security/keys/sysctl.c |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN Documentation/keys.txt~keys-make-the-keyring-quotas-controllable-through-proc-sys-fix Documentation/keys.txt
--- a/Documentation/keys.txt~keys-make-the-keyring-quotas-controllable-through-proc-sys-fix
+++ a/Documentation/keys.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ The key service provides a number of fea
      amount of description and payload space that can be consumed.
 
      The user can view information on this and other statistics through procfs
-     files.
+     files.  The root user may also alter the quota limits through sysctl files
+     (see the section "New procfs files").
 
      Process-specific and thread-specific keyrings are not counted towards a
      user's quota.
@@ -329,6 +330,27 @@ about the status of the key service:
 	<bytes>/<max>		Key size quota
 
 
+Four new sysctl files have been added also for the purpose of controlling the
+quota limits on keys:
+
+ (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys
+     /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes
+
+     These files hold the 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
+
+     These files hold the 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.
+
+Root may alter these by writing each new limit as a decimal number string to
+the appropriate file.
+
+
 ===============================
 USERSPACE SYSTEM CALL INTERFACE
 ===============================
diff -puN /dev/null security/keys/sysctl.c
--- /dev/null
+++ a/security/keys/sysctl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/* Key management controls
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/key.h>
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+ctl_table key_sysctls[] = {
+	{
+		.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname = "maxkeys",
+		.data = &key_quota_maxkeys,
+		.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned),
+		.mode = 0644,
+		.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname = "maxbytes",
+		.data = &key_quota_maxbytes,
+		.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned),
+		.mode = 0644,
+		.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname = "root_maxkeys",
+		.data = &key_quota_root_maxkeys,
+		.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned),
+		.mode = 0644,
+		.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname = "root_maxbytes",
+		.data = &key_quota_root_maxbytes,
+		.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned),
+		.mode = 0644,
+		.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
+};
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