Commit 53c39433 authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Min Chong
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UPSTREAM: proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top



(cherry picked from commit e54ad7f1)

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: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change-Id: Ib050ef9dc10e623589d22e3a9e6aee9ee4f0cd5d
Bug: 29444228
parent f394c99b
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