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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 19:48:52 (GMT)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 19:48:52 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
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@@ -554,6 +554,10 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
process must have write permission on the keyring, and it must be a
keyring (or else error ENOTDIR will result).
+ This function can also be used to clear special kernel keyrings if they
+ are appropriately marked if the user has CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. The
+ DNS resolver cache keyring is an example of this.
+
(*) Link a key into a keyring: