Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typo and formattting in security/credentials.rst

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Wed May 06 2026 - 20:37:09 EST


Hi,

On 5/6/26 3:59 PM, Mayank Gite wrote:
> - Fixes a typo in "Keys and keyrings" section. Replaces "keying" with
> "keyring".
> - Updates formatting of keyring types.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mayank Gite <drapl0n.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
In the future, right here, after that "---" line, it should say
something like

v2: use 'git send-email' so that that patch isn't corrupted

and in the Subject: it should say
[PATCH v2] ...

Thanks.

> Documentation/security/credentials.rst | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/security/credentials.rst b/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> index d0191c8b8060..4996838491b1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> @@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following types of credentials:
> be searched for the desired key. Each process may subscribe to a number
> of keyrings:
>
> - Per-thread keying
> - Per-process keyring
> - Per-session keyring
> + - Per-thread keyring
> + - Per-process keyring
> + - Per-session keyring
>
> When a process accesses a key, if not already present, it will normally be
> cached on one of these keyrings for future accesses to find.

--
~Randy