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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make key management use syscalls not prctls
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:56:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13514.1094550984@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040906180212.A7860@infradead.org>

> 
> Umm, sys_keyctl is one of those ioctl lookalikes that are an incredible
> pain for 32bit compat and we agreed to not add anymore.

Fixing up should be trivial in this case. It should just be a matter of
clearing the top 32 bits of every 64-bit argument. There are no structs that
need grabbing from userspace and fixing up.

David

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-06 12:14 [PATCH] Make key management use syscalls not prctls David Howells
2004-09-06 17:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07  9:56   ` David Howells [this message]

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