Re: [PATCH 05/22] KEYS: Provide software public key query function

From: James Morris
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 14:24:01 EST


On Sat, 6 Oct 2018, James Morris wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, David Howells wrote:
>
> > James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > + if (strcmp(encoding, "raw") == 0) {
> > > > + strcpy(alg_name, pkey->pkey_algo);
> > > > + return 0;
> > > > + }
> > >
> > > Can encoding here also be NULL to indicate raw? per patch 01:
> >
> > Ummm... By the letter of the documentation, yes, though in practice it isn't
> > (it is defaulted to "raw") in the keyctl interface. I wonder if it would be
> > better to require it to say "raw" and never be NULL.
>
> Probably.

If you respin the patches please add all the signoffs.

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James Morris
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