[Fedora 01/19] system_keyring: Make keyring searchable for root

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> I am planning to extend keyctl() to be able to verify signature of a user
> buffer. One should be able to pass in the keyring id which needs to be
> searched for potential keys against which signature can be verified.
>
> Said keyring should be searchable by the caller. Make system_keyring
> searcable for root so that root applications can use this keyring
> for signature verification of user buffers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Is there a reason we'd use this patch instead of the one submitted
upstream for inclusion?

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/commit/?h=keys-devel&id=1a64251120e59c0a2b15771f47e96e241039bd65

josh