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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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:09:43 +0000 (12:09 -0700)
commite54ad7f1ee263ffa5a2de9c609d58dfa27b21cd9
tree06fb2c592c36590d5819972a8645daec03de8c65
parent2dcd0af568b0cf583645c8a317dd12e344b1c72a
proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/root.c