[Fedora 11/19] keyctl: Introduce a new operation KEYCTL_VERIFY_SIGNATURE

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Thu Sep 5 00:59:53 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:50:15PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Matthew Garrett
> <matthew.garrett at nebula.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 17:24 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >> arg6
> >
> > You add a new argument (is that safe?) but don't actually seem to use it
> > anywhere?
> 
> Doesn't that break the userspace ABI?  I'm not sure upstream would
> find that acceptable even if the argument was used.

I don't need arg6. That's vestige of old implementation. I will remove
it.

Anyway, even if we added arg6, it should not break existing applications.
Number of arguments are variable and they vary based on command being
executed by syscall (first parameter).

Thanks
Vivek


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