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-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index 20d05719bceb..3849814bfe6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -826,7 +826,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
(*) Compute a Diffie-Hellman shared secret or public key
long keyctl(KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE, struct keyctl_dh_params *params,
- char *buffer, size_t buflen);
+ char *buffer, size_t buflen,
+ void *reserved);
The params struct contains serial numbers for three keys:
@@ -843,6 +844,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
public key. If the base is the remote public key, the result is
the shared secret.
+ The reserved argument must be set to NULL.
+
The buffer length must be at least the length of the prime, or zero.
If the buffer length is nonzero, the length of the result is