Re: Patch "KEYS: prevent keys from being removed from specified keyrings" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> The concept of not being able to remove a key from a keyring was
> introduced to prevent keys from being removed from the blacklist
> keyring.  The blacklist keyring was just upstreamed in the current open
> window.   I don't see a need to backport either this patch or the "KEYS:
> refcount bug fix" patch.

Ah, ok, remove this for all stable kernel trees, right?  For some reason
I thought this was resolving a different key security "issue" that was
recently reported...

thanks,

greg k-h
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