James Morris [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

+	if (strcmp(encoding, "raw") == 0) {
+		strcpy(alg_name, pkey->pkey_algo);
+		return 0;
+	}

Can encoding here also be NULL to indicate raw? per patch 01:

Ummm...  By the letter of the documentation, yes, though in practice it isn't
(it is defaulted to "raw") in the keyctl interface.  I wonder if it would be
better to require it to say "raw" and never be NULL.

David