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

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 08:21:48AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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

system_keyring bits in both the patches are same. I had written my patch
long back and this one has been committed by dave howells just yesterday
and is not in F20. That's why I continued with my patch.

So yes, this can be dropped once David howell's latest patcehs show up
in F20.

Thanks
Vivek