Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - if (perm & ~KEY_NEED_ALL) > > - return -EINVAL; > > + switch (need_perm) { > > + default: > > + return -EACCES; > ... > Is the change from -EINVAL to -EACCES a bug fix? > Does it introduce an incompatibility? It shouldn't happen. All the actual cases should be covered explicitly in the switch. It's to catch a programming issue in the kernel where a new value gets added to the enum but not propagated to all the places that check for it. I'd actually prefer it to be something even more obvious, especially as EINVAL is so widely used in the kernel. Should I put a WARN_ON in there? David