From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [ver #2]
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:59:25 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0908060857230.6643@tundra.namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090804203943.25094.68091.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, David Howells wrote:
> From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
>
> Make the file position maintained by /proc/keys represent the ID of the key
> just read rather than the number of keys read. This should make it faster to
> perform a lookup as we don't have to scan the key ID tree from the beginning to
> find the current position.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This does not apply to my tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
Looks like it's due to pending changes in the same file. Could you please
generate this patch against my tree?
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 20:39 [PATCH 1/6] KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately " David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm " David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED " David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. " David Howells
2009-08-04 23:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-05 0:29 ` James Morris
2009-08-05 9:40 ` David Howells
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position " David Howells
2009-08-05 22:59 ` James Morris [this message]
2009-08-04 20:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups " David Howells
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