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proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top
authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:55:05 +0000 (11:55 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:18:20 +0000 (10:18 -0700)
commit9beb96b344c846779f67d1be1cdafc66562b94ec
tree34de9f551916b9439f3044e1f91f40aa2ee9db77
parent035a94d8d1acdb829575a987222a6d5c45e8a5f2
proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top

commit e54ad7f1ee263ffa5a2de9c609d58dfa27b21cd9 upstream.

This prevents stacking filesystems (ecryptfs and overlayfs) from using
procfs as lower filesystem.  There is too much magic going on inside
procfs, and there is no good reason to stack stuff on top of procfs.

(For example, procfs does access checks in VFS open handlers, and
ecryptfs by design calls open handlers from a kernel thread that doesn't
drop privileges or so.)

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/proc/root.c