From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: "Matthias-Christian Ott" <ott@mirix.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: user - Allow CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG without CAP_NET_ADMIN
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:37:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201404282337.34142.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5359955A.4070903@mirix.org>
On Friday, April 25, 2014 at 12:51:06 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> CRYPTO_USER requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all operations. Most information
> provided by CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG is also accessible through /proc/modules
> and AF_ALG. CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG should not require CAP_NET_ADMIN so that
> processes without CAP_NET_ADMIN can use CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG to get cipher
> details, such as cipher priorities, for AF_ALG.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
> ---
> crypto/crypto_user.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Can you please submit the patch using git send-email so we can properly review
it?
Thank you !
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-05 14:43 Why does CRYPTO_USER require CAP_NET_ADMIN? Matthias-Christian Ott
2014-04-24 22:51 ` [PATCH] crypto: user - Allow CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG without CAP_NET_ADMIN Matthias-Christian Ott
2014-04-28 21:37 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2014-04-30 19:23 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2014-05-01 10:53 ` Marek Vasut
2014-05-03 23:45 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2014-05-08 14:01 ` Herbert Xu
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