Hi,
On 16/11/17 13:12, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:57:27AM +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to apply this commit to the stable trees before 4.12?
>>
>> commit 47b2c3fff4932e6fc17ce13d51a43c6969714e20
>> Author: Bilal Amarni <bilal.amarni@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu Jun 8 14:47:26 2017 +0100
>>
>> security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig
>>
>> In commit 20f06ed9f61a ("KEYS: 64-bit MIPS needs to use
>> compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace"), the keyctl syscall for 32-bit
>> MIPS was "fixed" to point at compat_sys_keyctl instead of sys_keyctl.
>> Unfortunately this caused the syscall to always return ENOSYS because
>> CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT was not enabled on MIPS. Instead of fixing this by
>> manually by enabling KEYS_COMPAT in the MIPS Kconfig, I think applying
>> the above commit is a better.
>
> Sounds resonable, but how far back should it go? 4.9 makes sense, but
> stuff older than that? 4.4? 4.1? 3.16?
I'm most interested in 4.9, but I think it should go in all versions
which have 20f06ed9f61a applied, which includes all the current longterm
kernels as far as I can see.
Thanks,
James