diff --git a/security/capability.c b/security/capability.c
index 06400cf..93a2ffe 100644
--- a/security/capability.c
+++ b/security/capability.c
@@ -373,6 +373,11 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int cap_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void cap_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
 {
 }
@@ -386,6 +391,10 @@
 {
 }
 
+static void cap_cred_transfer(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
+{
+}
+
 static int cap_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid)
 {
 	return 0;
@@ -836,6 +845,13 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int cap_key_session_to_parent(const struct cred *cred,
+				     const struct cred *parent_cred,
+				     struct key *key)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEYS */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT
@@ -961,9 +977,11 @@
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_receive);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, dentry_open);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_create);
+	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_alloc_blank);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_free);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_prepare);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_commit);
+	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_transfer);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_act_as);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_create_files_as);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_module_request);
@@ -1063,6 +1081,7 @@
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, key_free);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, key_permission);
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, key_getsecurity);
+	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, key_session_to_parent);
 #endif	/* CONFIG_KEYS */
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT
 	set_to_cap_if_null(ops, audit_rule_init);
diff --git a/security/keys/compat.c b/security/keys/compat.c
index c766c68..792c0a6 100644
--- a/security/keys/compat.c
+++ b/security/keys/compat.c
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
 	case KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY:
 		return keyctl_get_security(arg2, compat_ptr(arg3), arg4);
 
+	case KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT:
+		return keyctl_session_to_parent();
+
 	default:
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
diff --git a/security/keys/gc.c b/security/keys/gc.c
index 44adc32..1e616ae 100644
--- a/security/keys/gc.c
+++ b/security/keys/gc.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
  * - return true if we altered the keyring
  */
 static bool key_gc_keyring(struct key *keyring, time_t limit)
+	__releases(key_serial_lock)
 {
 	struct keyring_list *klist;
 	struct key *key;
diff --git a/security/keys/internal.h b/security/keys/internal.h
index fb83051..24ba030 100644
--- a/security/keys/internal.h
+++ b/security/keys/internal.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
 extern long keyctl_assume_authority(key_serial_t);
 extern long keyctl_get_security(key_serial_t keyid, char __user *buffer,
 				size_t buflen);
+extern long keyctl_session_to_parent(void);
 
 /*
  * debugging key validation
diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 736d780..74c9685 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1228,6 +1228,105 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * attempt to install the calling process's session keyring on the process's
+ * parent process
+ * - the keyring must exist and must grant us LINK permission
+ * - implements keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT)
+ */
+long keyctl_session_to_parent(void)
+{
+	struct task_struct *me, *parent;
+	const struct cred *mycred, *pcred;
+	struct cred *cred, *oldcred;
+	key_ref_t keyring_r;
+	int ret;
+
+	keyring_r = lookup_user_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, 0, KEY_LINK);
+	if (IS_ERR(keyring_r))
+		return PTR_ERR(keyring_r);
+
+	/* our parent is going to need a new cred struct, a new tgcred struct
+	 * and new security data, so we allocate them here to prevent ENOMEM in
+	 * our parent */
+	ret = -ENOMEM;
+	cred = cred_alloc_blank();
+	if (!cred)
+		goto error_keyring;
+
+	cred->tgcred->session_keyring = key_ref_to_ptr(keyring_r);
+	keyring_r = NULL;
+
+	me = current;
+	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
+	parent = me->real_parent;
+	ret = -EPERM;
+
+	/* the parent mustn't be init and mustn't be a kernel thread */
+	if (parent->pid <= 1 || !parent->mm)
+		goto not_permitted;
+
+	/* the parent must be single threaded */
+	if (atomic_read(&parent->signal->count) != 1)
+		goto not_permitted;
+
+	/* the parent and the child must have different session keyrings or
+	 * there's no point */
+	mycred = current_cred();
+	pcred = __task_cred(parent);
+	if (mycred == pcred ||
+	    mycred->tgcred->session_keyring == pcred->tgcred->session_keyring)
+		goto already_same;
+
+	/* the parent must have the same effective ownership and mustn't be
+	 * SUID/SGID */
+	if (pcred-> uid	!= mycred->euid	||
+	    pcred->euid	!= mycred->euid	||
+	    pcred->suid	!= mycred->euid	||
+	    pcred-> gid	!= mycred->egid	||
+	    pcred->egid	!= mycred->egid	||
+	    pcred->sgid	!= mycred->egid)
+		goto not_permitted;
+
+	/* the keyrings must have the same UID */
+	if (pcred ->tgcred->session_keyring->uid != mycred->euid ||
+	    mycred->tgcred->session_keyring->uid != mycred->euid)
+		goto not_permitted;
+
+	/* the LSM must permit the replacement of the parent's keyring with the
+	 * keyring from this process */
+	ret = security_key_session_to_parent(mycred, pcred,
+					     key_ref_to_ptr(keyring_r));
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto not_permitted;
+
+	/* if there's an already pending keyring replacement, then we replace
+	 * that */
+	oldcred = parent->replacement_session_keyring;
+
+	/* the replacement session keyring is applied just prior to userspace
+	 * restarting */
+	parent->replacement_session_keyring = cred;
+	cred = NULL;
+	set_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(parent), TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
+
+	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (oldcred)
+		put_cred(oldcred);
+	return 0;
+
+already_same:
+	ret = 0;
+not_permitted:
+	put_cred(cred);
+	return ret;
+
+error_keyring:
+	key_ref_put(keyring_r);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 /*
  * the key control system call
@@ -1313,6 +1412,9 @@
 					   (char __user *) arg3,
 					   (size_t) arg4);
 
+	case KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT:
+		return keyctl_session_to_parent();
+
 	default:
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index 4739cfb..5c23afb 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -768,3 +769,51 @@
 	abort_creds(new);
 	return ret;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Replace a process's session keyring when that process resumes userspace on
+ * behalf of one of its children
+ */
+void key_replace_session_keyring(void)
+{
+	const struct cred *old;
+	struct cred *new;
+
+	if (!current->replacement_session_keyring)
+		return;
+
+	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	new = current->replacement_session_keyring;
+	current->replacement_session_keyring = NULL;
+	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
+	if (!new)
+		return;
+
+	old = current_cred();
+	new->  uid	= old->  uid;
+	new-> euid	= old-> euid;
+	new-> suid	= old-> suid;
+	new->fsuid	= old->fsuid;
+	new->  gid	= old->  gid;
+	new-> egid	= old-> egid;
+	new-> sgid	= old-> sgid;
+	new->fsgid	= old->fsgid;
+	new->user	= get_uid(old->user);
+	new->group_info	= get_group_info(old->group_info);
+
+	new->securebits	= old->securebits;
+	new->cap_inheritable	= old->cap_inheritable;
+	new->cap_permitted	= old->cap_permitted;
+	new->cap_effective	= old->cap_effective;
+	new->cap_bset		= old->cap_bset;
+
+	new->jit_keyring	= old->jit_keyring;
+	new->thread_keyring	= key_get(old->thread_keyring);
+	new->tgcred->tgid	= old->tgcred->tgid;
+	new->tgcred->process_keyring = key_get(old->tgcred->process_keyring);
+
+	security_transfer_creds(new, old);
+
+	commit_creds(new);
+}
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index f88eaf6..d8b7276 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -684,6 +684,11 @@
 	return security_ops->task_create(clone_flags);
 }
 
+int security_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return security_ops->cred_alloc_blank(cred, gfp);
+}
+
 void security_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
 {
 	security_ops->cred_free(cred);
@@ -699,6 +704,11 @@
 	security_ops->cred_commit(new, old);
 }
 
+void security_transfer_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
+{
+	security_ops->cred_transfer(new, old);
+}
+
 int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid)
 {
 	return security_ops->kernel_act_as(new, secid);
@@ -1241,6 +1251,13 @@
 	return security_ops->key_getsecurity(key, _buffer);
 }
 
+int security_key_session_to_parent(const struct cred *cred,
+				   const struct cred *parent_cred,
+				   struct key *key)
+{
+	return security_ops->key_session_to_parent(cred, parent_cred, key);
+}
+
 #endif	/* CONFIG_KEYS */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index c3bb31e..134a9c0 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -3233,6 +3233,21 @@
 }
 
 /*
+ * allocate the SELinux part of blank credentials
+ */
+static int selinux_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	struct task_security_struct *tsec;
+
+	tsec = kzalloc(sizeof(struct task_security_struct), gfp);
+	if (!tsec)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	cred->security = tsec;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * detach and free the LSM part of a set of credentials
  */
 static void selinux_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
@@ -3264,6 +3279,17 @@
 }
 
 /*
+ * transfer the SELinux data to a blank set of creds
+ */
+static void selinux_cred_transfer(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
+{
+	const struct task_security_struct *old_tsec = old->security;
+	struct task_security_struct *tsec = new->security;
+
+	*tsec = *old_tsec;
+}
+
+/*
  * set the security data for a kernel service
  * - all the creation contexts are set to unlabelled
  */
@@ -5469,8 +5495,10 @@
 	.dentry_open =			selinux_dentry_open,
 
 	.task_create =			selinux_task_create,
+	.cred_alloc_blank =		selinux_cred_alloc_blank,
 	.cred_free =			selinux_cred_free,
 	.cred_prepare =			selinux_cred_prepare,
+	.cred_transfer =		selinux_cred_transfer,
 	.kernel_act_as =		selinux_kernel_act_as,
 	.kernel_create_files_as =	selinux_kernel_create_files_as,
 	.kernel_module_request =	selinux_kernel_module_request,
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index c243a2b..969f5fe 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -1080,6 +1080,22 @@
  */
 
 /**
+ * smack_cred_alloc_blank - "allocate" blank task-level security credentials
+ * @new: the new credentials
+ * @gfp: the atomicity of any memory allocations
+ *
+ * Prepare a blank set of credentials for modification.  This must allocate all
+ * the memory the LSM module might require such that cred_transfer() can
+ * complete without error.
+ */
+static int smack_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	cred->security = NULL;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+/**
  * smack_cred_free - "free" task-level security credentials
  * @cred: the credentials in question
  *
@@ -1117,6 +1133,18 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * smack_cred_transfer - Transfer the old credentials to the new credentials
+ * @new: the new credentials
+ * @old: the original credentials
+ *
+ * Fill in a set of blank credentials from another set of credentials.
+ */
+static void smack_cred_transfer(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
+{
+	new->security = old->security;
+}
+
+/**
  * smack_kernel_act_as - Set the subjective context in a set of credentials
  * @new: points to the set of credentials to be modified.
  * @secid: specifies the security ID to be set
@@ -3073,9 +3101,11 @@
 	.file_send_sigiotask = 		smack_file_send_sigiotask,
 	.file_receive = 		smack_file_receive,
 
+	.cred_alloc_blank =		smack_cred_alloc_blank,
 	.cred_free =			smack_cred_free,
 	.cred_prepare =			smack_cred_prepare,
 	.cred_commit =			smack_cred_commit,
+	.cred_transfer =		smack_cred_transfer,
 	.kernel_act_as =		smack_kernel_act_as,
 	.kernel_create_files_as =	smack_kernel_create_files_as,
 	.task_setpgid = 		smack_task_setpgid,
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
index 35a13e7..9548a09 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@
 #include "tomoyo.h"
 #include "realpath.h"
 
+static int tomoyo_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *new, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	new->security = NULL;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int tomoyo_cred_prepare(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 			       gfp_t gfp)
 {
@@ -25,6 +31,15 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void tomoyo_cred_transfer(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Since "struct tomoyo_domain_info *" is a sharable pointer,
+	 * we don't need to duplicate.
+	 */
+	new->security = old->security;
+}
+
 static int tomoyo_bprm_set_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
 	int rc;
@@ -262,7 +277,9 @@
  */
 static struct security_operations tomoyo_security_ops = {
 	.name                = "tomoyo",
+	.cred_alloc_blank    = tomoyo_cred_alloc_blank,
 	.cred_prepare        = tomoyo_cred_prepare,
+	.cred_transfer	     = tomoyo_cred_transfer,
 	.bprm_set_creds      = tomoyo_bprm_set_creds,
 	.bprm_check_security = tomoyo_bprm_check_security,
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL