On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:17:43PM -0500, Yael Tiomkin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 2:07 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 09:35:31AM -0500, Yael Tiomkin wrote: > > > The encrypted.c class supports instantiation of encrypted keys with > > > either an already-encrypted key material, or by generating new key > > > material based on random numbers. To support encryption of > > > user-provided decrypted data, this patch defines a new datablob > > > format: [<format>] <master-key name> <decrypted data length> > > > <decrypted data>. > > > > What is the use case for this feature? > > > > Also, please send this to all the relevant mailing lists and people. > > Notably, > > you didn't send this to the keyrings mailing list. Try running > > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl on the patch file. > > > > Please also test patches before sending them. This one doesn't even > > compile. > > > > - Eric > > > > Hi, > > Apologies for having missed additional relevant mailing lists. > I sent a previous email asking to disregard this patch and have since sent > out a fixed version which does compile. I don't see your "email asking to disregard this patch". Did you send it in plain text? The Linux kernel mailing lists don't accept non-plain-text email. Also, the second version isn't marked as "[PATCH v2]" like would be expected. So it looks like a duplicate rather than a new version. Can you make sure you've read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst? - Eric
