Re: [PATCH] keyctl.2: updates regarding command usage, return values and error codes

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Hello Mat,

On 26 September 2016 at 20:03, Mat Martineau
<mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Michael and Eugene -
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> [CC extended:
>> keyrings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Mat Martineau, as he added KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE]
>>
>>
>> Hello Eugene,
>>
>> On 09/26/2016 04:24 AM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I've drafted some updates to the keyctl.2 man page while preparing test
>>> for strace syscall decoder. It is focused mostly on description of
>>> argument
>>> format used in various commands and return values/error codes.
>>> Information is based on Documentation/security/keys.txt,
>>> include/uapi/linux/keyctl.h, and source code and comments in
>>> security/keys/ (mostly comments from security/keys/keyctl.c).
>>> Hope you find it useful.
>
>
> There's additional reference material from keyctl.1 and keyctl.3 in
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/ .
> The 'next' branch has updates for KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE

Thanks.

One thing that the man page and the commit message for the DH compute
feature lack is a rationale for why this operation was added.

So, why was it added? It'd be good to document that.

Cheers,

Michael
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