Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The interface for the active ops is a bit clunky as the syscall interface > > doesn't provide sufficient argument space to pass everything I need to > > specify. Some basic integer arguments are specified in a struct and more > > complex options through a string of key=val pairs - just so I don't have to > > deal with the compat code for dealing with a struct containing pointers > > (but I can change to that if it's preferable). > > It sounds like the struct would still have pointers to strings that would > need parsing, It doesn't: struct keyctl_pkey_params { __s32 key_id; __s32 password_id; __u32 data_len; __u32 enc_len; __u32 __spare[4]; }; because I have sufficient syscall arguments to pass four pointers - the struct above, one info string and two buffer pointers. > so I'm not sure it's that much overhead to handle the short > strings of key=val pairs. But I'll agree that it feels clunky. ... fixes applied ... > > + info->supported_ops = KEYCTL_SUPPORTS_VERIFY; > > Did you intend to include encrypt/decrypt/sign here? When they're implemented there. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html