From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755125AbbAVW3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:29:06 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37718 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754800AbbAVW3C convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:29:02 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: To: Jiri Kosina Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Rusty Russell , Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: /proc/keys is not unconditionally available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11414.1421965730.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:28:50 +0000 Message-ID: <11415.1421965730@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Documentation/module-signing.txt file is referring to /proc/keys file in > > order to view all keys contained in the kernel's keyring. That file is not > > universally avialble when CONFIG_KEYS is enabled, which is confusing. The > > fact that the option needed for this procfs interface to exist contains > > "_DEBUG_" in its name makes it even more confusing. Document this fact. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina > > Noone complained, but it doesn't seem to have made its way to linux-next > either. I am now pushing it out to trivial.git. Sorry, I should've dealt with this. What we actually need to do is make /proc/keys unconditional as it's used by libkeyutils. David