From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, jmorris@namei.org, keyrings@linux-nfs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.'
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:09:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27732.1410437386@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410435813.5187.36.camel@dhcp-9-2-203-236.watson.ibm.com>
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:36 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:22 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > > Reinstate the generation of EPERM for a key type name beginning with a
> > > '.' in a userspace call. Types whose name begins with a '.' are
> > > internal only.
>
> After re-reading your comment and looking at the different types,
> testing for dot prefixed types now makes sense. Both dot prefixed types
> and keyring names are reserved for the kernel.
Are you withdrawing your objection, then?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-11 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-10 21:21 [PATCH 0/6] KEYS: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] KEYS: Fix termination condition in assoc array garbage collection David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.' David Howells
2014-09-10 23:36 ` Mimi Zohar
2014-09-11 11:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2014-09-11 12:09 ` David Howells [this message]
2014-09-11 12:27 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2014-09-11 12:28 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2014-09-11 13:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2014-09-11 21:26 ` David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] KEYS: Fix missing statics David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] PKCS#7: Add a missing static David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] PKCS#7: Provide a single place to do signed info block freeing David Howells
2014-09-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] PKCS#7: Fix the parser cleanup to drain parsed out X.509 certs David Howells
2014-09-15 13:04 ` [PATCH 0/6] KEYS: Miscellaneous fixes David Howells
2014-09-16 2:15 ` James Morris
2014-09-16 9:07 ` David Howells
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