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

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Jan 22 2015 - 17:29:10 EST


Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> 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.

David
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