Re: [GIT PULL] Keyrings (& NFS) fixes

From: James Morris
Date: Mon Dec 01 2014 - 17:49:17 EST


On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, David Howells wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Can you pass these patches on to Linus please?
>
> The first one fixes the handling of maximum buffer size for key descriptions,
> fixing the size at 4095 + NUL char rather than whatever PAGE_SIZE happens to
> be and permits you to read back the full description without it getting
> clipped because some extra information got prepended.
>
> The second and third fix a bug in NFS idmapper handling whereby a key
> representing a mapping between an id and a name expires and causing
> EKEYEXPIRED to be seen internally in NFS (which prevents the mapping from
> happening) rather than re-looking up the mapping.
>
> Thanks,
> David
> ---
> The following changes since commit a6aacbde406eeb6f8fc218b2c6172825f5e73fcf:
>
> Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity into next (2014-11-19 21:36:07 +1100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git tags/keys-fixes-20141121
>

Because these patches are going to current Linus, you need to apply these
patches to a tree based on his tree, and send a pull req to me for that.


--
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>

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