Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.' | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:43:33 -0400 |
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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.
Mimi
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