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

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Fri Oct 5 18:23:54 UTC 2018


On Sat, 6 Oct 2018, James Morris wrote:

> 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.

If you respin the patches please add all the signoffs.

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>



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