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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-23 16:09:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-23 16:09:23 -0800
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Merge tag 'keys-misc-20210126' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull keyring updates from David Howells:
 "Here's a set of minor keyrings fixes/cleanups that I've collected from
  various people for the upcoming merge window.

  A couple of them might, in theory, be visible to userspace:

   - Make blacklist_vet_description() reject uppercase letters as they
     don't match the all-lowercase hex string generated for a blacklist
     search.

     This may want reconsideration in the future, but, currently, you
     can't add to the blacklist keyring from userspace and the only
     source of blacklist keys generates lowercase descriptions.

   - Fix blacklist_init() to use a new KEY_ALLOC_* flag to indicate that
     it wants KEY_FLAG_KEEP to be set rather than passing KEY_FLAG_KEEP
     into keyring_alloc() as KEY_FLAG_KEEP isn't a valid alloc flag.

     This isn't currently a problem as the blacklist keyring isn't
     currently writable by userspace.

  The rest of the patches are cleanups and I don't think they should
  have any visible effect"

* tag 'keys-misc-20210126' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch()
  certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID
  certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion
  PKCS#7: Fix missing include
  certs: Fix blacklisted hexadecimal hash string check
  certs/blacklist: fix kernel doc interface issue
  crypto: public_key: Remove redundant header file from public_key.h
  keys: remove trailing semicolon in macro definition
  crypto: pkcs7: Use match_string() helper to simplify the code
  PKCS#7: drop function from kernel-doc pkcs7_validate_trust_one
  encrypted-keys: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  crypto: asymmetric_keys: fix some comments in pkcs7_parser.h
  KEYS: remove redundant memset
  security: keys: delete repeated words in comments
  KEYS: asymmetric: Fix kerneldoc
  security/keys: use kvfree_sensitive()
  watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue
  keys: Remove outdated __user annotations
  security: keys: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
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diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
index aa0081685ee1..b3ed5c581034 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst
@@ -1040,8 +1040,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
 
      "key" is the ID of the key to be watched.
 
-     "queue_fd" is a file descriptor referring to an open "/dev/watch_queue"
-     which manages the buffer into which notifications will be delivered.
+     "queue_fd" is a file descriptor referring to an open pipe which
+     manages the buffer into which notifications will be delivered.
 
      "filter" is either NULL to remove a watch or a filter specification to
      indicate what events are required from the key.