Re: [PATCH 2/6] KEYS: Reinstate EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.'

[Mimi Zohar]

On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 19:36 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: 
> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:22 +0100, David Howells wrote: 
> > Reinstate the generation of EPERM for a key type name beginning with a '.' in
> > a userspace call.  Types whose name begins with a '.' are internal only.

After re-reading your comment and looking at the different types,
testing for dot prefixed types now makes sense.  Both dot prefixed types
and keyring names are reserved for the kernel.

Mimi


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