Re: [PATCH] Make key management use syscalls not prctls

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 05:01:05 EST

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>
> 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
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