[PATCH] Documentation: fix typo and formattting in security/credentials.rst

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Thu May 7 00:36:53 UTC 2026


Hi,

On 5/6/26 3:59 PM, Mayank Gite wrote:
> - Fixes a typo in "Keys and keyrings" section. Replaces "keying" with
>   "keyring".
> - Updates formatting of keyring types.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mayank Gite <drapl0n.kernel at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>

> ---
In the future, right here, after that "---" line, it should say
something like

v2: use 'git send-email' so that that patch isn't corrupted

and in the Subject: it should say
[PATCH v2] ...

Thanks.

>  Documentation/security/credentials.rst | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/security/credentials.rst b/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> index d0191c8b8060..4996838491b1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/security/credentials.rst
> @@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following types of credentials:
>       be searched for the desired key.  Each process may subscribe to a number
>       of keyrings:
>  
> -	Per-thread keying
> -	Per-process keyring
> -	Per-session keyring
> +	- Per-thread keyring
> +	- Per-process keyring
> +	- Per-session keyring
>  
>       When a process accesses a key, if not already present, it will normally be
>       cached on one of these keyrings for future accesses to find.

-- 
~Randy



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