[PATCH] security/keys: Remove inconsistent __user annotation

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Thu Sep 8 05:17:11 UTC 2022


On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 11:43:17AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 10:06 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On 9/7/22 05:12, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> > > The declaration of keyring_read does not match the definition
> > > (security/keys/keyring.c). In this case the definition is correct
> > > because it matches what defined in "struct key_type::read"
> > > (linux/key-type.h).
> > >
> > > Fix the declaration removing the inconsistent __user annotation.
> > >
> > > Cc: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> > > Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
> > > ---
> > > Note: This issue was discovered during the porting of the linux kernel
> > > on Morello [1].
> > >
> > > [1] https://git.morello-project.org/morello/kernel/linux
> >
> > FTR, I have sent this same patch 3 times.
> > Good luck.
> 
> David or Jarkko, this patch is both trivial and obviously correct,
> please merge this into the keys tree for the next merge window else
> I'll take it via the LSM tree.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

I picked it to my tree.

BR, Jarkko



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