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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.'
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Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The concept of dot prefixing should probably be documented either in the
> code and/or documentation. At this point, both types and keyring names
> are reserved.

Indeed. There is one type whose name begins with a '.' that's sort of
internal to the kernel (".request_key_auth") that I definitely don't want
userspace to try creating.

The question of whether the description of a non-keyring key is permitted to
begin with a '.' is a separate issue to this patch. We'd have to be sure that
no one is using keys of such a form.

David


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