On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 08:21:48AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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 system_keyring bits in both the patches are same. I had written my patch long back and this one has been committed by dave howells just yesterday and is not in F20. That's why I continued with my patch. So yes, this can be dropped once David howell's latest patcehs show up in F20. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
