linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM64: enable CONFIG_KEYS

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:22:37 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Bilal Amarni <bilal.amarni@...il.com>, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM64: enable CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT in Kconfig

On Monday, January 23, 2017 6:03:12 PM CET Bilal Amarni wrote:
> Currently in 32-bit userspace calling the keyctl syscall returns an ENOSYS error.
> 
> This makes sure the compatibility wrapper is registered.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bilal Amarni <bilal.amarni@...il.com>

While this looks technically correct, it doesn't seem very nice to the
other 64-bit architectures that may also be missing this.

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 1117421..d76f70b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1030,6 +1030,10 @@ config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
>         def_bool y
>         depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
>  
> +config KEYS_COMPAT
> +       def_bool y
> +       depends on COMPAT && KEYS
> +

I see four copies of this in existing architectures, but none for
mips, parisc or tile. How about just moving this next to CONFIG_KEYS?

	Arnd