Re: Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel

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On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 16:50 +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
> Since I was a little puzzled as to why keyutils built previously on
> mips, I found this commit to 4.8 which caused the need for KEYS_COMPAT:
> 
> commit 20f06ed9f61a185c6dabd662c310bed6189470df
> Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jul 27 11:43:37 2016 +0100
> 
>     KEYS: 64-bit MIPS needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace
>     
>     MIPS64 needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace rather than
>     calling sys_keyctl.  The latter will work in a lot of cases, thereby hiding
>     the issue.
> 
> Now I'm thinking maybe this can be argued as a bugfix for the above
> commit and put in upstream 4.9?

Greg, please queue up these two for 4.9:

5c2a625937ba arm64: support keyctl() system call in 32-bit mode
47b2c3fff493 security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of
incompetence.

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