• Al Viro's avatar
    Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs · 4403158b
    Al Viro authored
    This is a seriously simplified patch from Eric Sandeen; copy of
    rationale follows:
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      mounting stacked ecryptfs on ecryptfs has been shown to lead to bugs
      in testing.  For crypto info in xattr, there is no mechanism for handling
      this at all, and for normal file headers, we run into other trouble:
    
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
      IP: [<ffffffffa015b0b3>] ecryptfs_d_revalidate+0x43/0xa0 [ecryptfs]
      ...
    
      There doesn't seem to be any good usecase for this, so I'd suggest just
      disallowing the configuration.
    
      Based on a patch originally, I believe, from Mike Halcrow.
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    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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