From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754776AbaIKMKB (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:10:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60062 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754499AbaIKMKA (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:10:00 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1410435813.5187.36.camel@dhcp-9-2-203-236.watson.ibm.com> References: <1410435813.5187.36.camel@dhcp-9-2-203-236.watson.ibm.com> <20140910212154.10752.23343.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20140910212206.10752.21818.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1410392204.5187.14.camel@dhcp-9-2-203-236.watson.ibm.com> To: Mimi Zohar Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, jmorris@namei.org, keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <27731.1410437386.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:09:46 +0100 Message-ID: <27732.1410437386@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:36 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:22 +0100, David Howells wrote: > > > Reinstate the generation of EPERM for a key type name beginning with a > > > '.' in a userspace call. Types whose name begins with a '.' are > > > internal only. > > After re-reading your comment and looking at the different types, > testing for dot prefixed types now makes sense. Both dot prefixed types > and keyring names are reserved for the kernel. Are you withdrawing your objection, then? David