Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: /proc/keys is not unconditionally available

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, David Howells wrote:

> > > Documentation/module-signing.txt file is referring to /proc/keys file in 
> > > order to view all keys contained in the kernel's keyring. That file is not 
> > > universally avialble when CONFIG_KEYS is enabled, which is confusing. The 
> > > fact that the option needed for this procfs interface to exist contains 
> > > "_DEBUG_" in its name makes it even more confusing. Document this fact.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Noone complained, but it doesn't seem to have made its way to linux-next 
> > either. I am now pushing it out to trivial.git.
> 
> Sorry, I should've dealt with this.  What we actually need to do is make
> /proc/keys unconditional as it's used by libkeyutils.

OK, I am dropping the documentation update. Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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