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Commit 66778390 authored by Jeff Mahoney's avatar Jeff Mahoney Committed by jenkins_ndg
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Revert "ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler"

This reverts commit 2f36db71009304b3f0b95afacd8eba1f9f046b87.

It fixed a local root exploit but also introduced a dependency on
the lower file system implementing an mmap operation just to open a file,
which is a bit of a heavy hammer.  The right fix is to have mmap depend
on the existence of the mmap handler instead.

Change-Id: I29aea438b02dda1170384cbc3629b705bd7b0273
Tracked-On: https://jira01.devtools.intel.com/browse/AW-2810


Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reviewed-on: https://android.intel.com/553592


Reviewed-by: default avatarLouis, FabienX <fabienx.louis@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLouis, FabienX <fabienx.louis@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDubray, SimonX <simonx.dubray@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMahe, Erwan <erwan.mahe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLedentec, AlexandreX <alexandrex.ledentec@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTasayco Loarte, VictorX <victorx.tasayco.loarte@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTasayco Loarte, VictorX <victorx.tasayco.loarte@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaalem, Saadi <saadi.maalem@intel.com>
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