On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:06:20 +0000
David Howells <[email protected]> wrote:
> Davi Arnaut <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In keyctl_keyring_search() there wasn't a check for type[0] == '.', but your
> > mm-patch added one implicitly. Which one is correct ?
>
> Ummm... good point. Key types beginning with a dot are special, and userspace
> isn't allowed to create them. I'm not sure whether they should be findable or
> not, but I'm happy go for not at the moment (so the patch is correct, not the
> original).
>
> There's another minor problem with your patch:
>
> warthog>grep -r strndup_user *
> warthog1>
>
> I take it that this isn't in Linus's kernel yet... However, I don't want my
> patch to be held up too much since there are some awkward holes that need
> fixing. I'm definitely in favour of strndup_user() though.
>
> David
Andrew, are you willing to merge for .17 ?
--
Davi Arnaut
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