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 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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