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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1501231150380.10817@pobox.suse.cz> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:50:49 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: /proc/keys is not unconditionally available 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@...e.cz> > > > > 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, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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