On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am planning to extend keyctl() to be able to verify signature of a user > buffer. One should be able to pass in the keyring id which needs to be > searched for potential keys against which signature can be verified. > > Said keyring should be searchable by the caller. Make system_keyring > searcable for root so that root applications can use this keyring > for signature verification of user buffers. > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Is there a reason we'd use this patch instead of the one submitted upstream for inclusion? http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/commit/?h=keys-devel&id=1a64251120e59c0a2b15771f47e96e241039bd65 josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
