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

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Fri Oct 5 16:28:17 UTC 2018


On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, David Howells wrote:

> James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> 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.

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>



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