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Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel

From James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel
Date 2017-11-16 21:40 +0100
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Hi,

On 16/11/17 19:04, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 16:50 +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
>> Since I was a little puzzled as to why keyutils built previously on
>> mips, I found this commit to 4.8 which caused the need for KEYS_COMPAT:
>>
>> commit 20f06ed9f61a185c6dabd662c310bed6189470df
>> Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 27 11:43:37 2016 +0100
>>
>>     KEYS: 64-bit MIPS needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace
>>     
>>     MIPS64 needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace rather than
>>     calling sys_keyctl.  The latter will work in a lot of cases, thereby hiding
>>     the issue.
>>
>> Now I'm thinking maybe this can be argued as a bugfix for the above
>> commit and put in upstream 4.9?
> 
> Greg, please queue up these two for 4.9:
> 
> 5c2a625937ba arm64: support keyctl() system call in 32-bit mode
> 47b2c3fff493 security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig

Sorry, I asked for this in two places. I think it's already queued up
for 4.9 now.

Thanks,
James

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Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 17:30 +0100
  Processed: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT  to Kconfig" to stretch kernel owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-11-15 17:30 +0100
  Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 18:00 +0100
    Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-11-16 20:10 +0100
      Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 21:40 +0100
        Bug#881830: linux: cherry-pick "security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig" to stretch kernel Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-11-17 09:20 +0100

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