From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267777AbUIGJ5E (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:57:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267779AbUIGJ5E (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:57:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:10182 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267777AbUIGJ5B (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:57:01 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20040906180212.A7860@infradead.org> References: <20040906180212.A7860@infradead.org> <12228.1094472878@redhat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make key management use syscalls not prctls User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:56:24 +0100 Message-ID: <13514.1094550984@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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