Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: /proc/keys is not unconditionally available

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 05:51:08 EST


On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, David Howells 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 <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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.

OK, I am dropping the documentation update. Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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