From: David Howells <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:43:12 +0100

> Use the 32-bit compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 binary
> compatibility.
> 
> Without this, keyctl(KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV) is liable to malfunction as it
> uses an iovec array read from userspace - though the kernel should survive 
> this
> as it checks pointers and sizes anyway.
> 
> I think all the other keyctl() function should just work, provided (a) the top
> 32-bits of each 64-bit argument register are cleared prior to invoking the
> syscall routine, and the 32-bit address space is right at the 0-end of the
> 64-bit address space.  Most of the arguments are 32-bit anyway, and so for
> those clearing is not required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]

I'm happy with someone else merging this in, thanks for doing this work:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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