APPLIED: [Lucid][SRU][PATCH 0/1] Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/15/2012 12:04 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> Stacking ecryptfs over ecryptfs can lead to many kinds of errors.
> There doesn't seem to be any good usecase for this and we should
> follow the upstream policy of disallowing the configuration.
>
> Fix: Without the fix, we can stack ecryptfs over ecryptfs which can
> lead to all sorts of trouble.  With the fix, mount fails with EINVAL
> and the kernel reports:
>
> "Mount on filesystem of the type eCryptfs explicitly disasslowed due
> to known incompatibilities"
>
> This is a backport of commit 4403158ba295c8e36f6736b1bb12d0f7e1923dac
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/932987
>
> Colin Ian King (1):
>    Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
>
>   fs/ecryptfs/main.c |    8 ++++++++
>   1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>


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