From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (Freeman Zhang)
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:42:49 +0800
Subject: How to use keyring in the kernel?
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Hi,

On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:34, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:12:15 +0800, Freeman Zhang said:
>
>> And most importantly, what if someone need to manipulate
>> (created, updated and read) keys(not keyring) in kernel
>> services while user key type "aren't intended" for that?
> Why would the kernel be doing that in the first place, when it can
> just use a key that's *not* either a user key or a keyring?
Oh, that's why we should define our own key types.
Thank you Valdis!

Freeman