Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Many distros do not call into pam_keyinit to set up the session keyring
> properly at login time. When cifscreds add is used in such a session,
> the kernel will spawn a new session keyring in which to install the
> credentials. That keyring will then go away once the cifscreds process
> exits.
> 
> Check for this situation by looking to see if the session and
> user-session keyrings are the same. Throw a warning if so, and add some
> verbiage to the cifscreds manpage that explains the issue. Also, if
> the session keyring can't be queried for any reason, then cause the
> program to error out.
> 
> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Milan Knížek <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

Acked-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
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