From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Arun Raghavan <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow clients to set key perms in key_create_or_update()
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:48:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25831.1204883318@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CFD7F8.9010903@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Arun Raghavan <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote:
> The key_create_or_update() function provided by the keyring code has a default
> set of permissions that are always applied to the key when created. This might
> not be desirable to all clients.
>
> Here's a patch that adds a "perm" parameter to the function to address this,
> which can be set to KEY_PERM_UNDEF to revert to the current behaviour.
I'll get to this shortly. I'm just creating another keyrings patch, so I'll
look at yours afterwards.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 11:39 [PATCH] Allow clients to set key perms in key_create_or_update() Arun Raghavan
2008-03-07 9:48 ` David Howells [this message]
2008-03-07 14:29 ` David Howells
2008-03-07 16:01 ` Arun Raghavan
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