linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] eCryptfs fixes for 4.7-rc7

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:49:40 -0500
From:	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] eCryptfs fixes for 4.7-rc7

Hi Linus,

The following changes since commit 33688abb2802ff3a230bd2441f765477b94cc89e:

  Linux 4.7-rc4 (2016-06-19 21:30:02 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs.git tags/ecryptfs-4.7-rc7-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to f0fe970df3838c202ef6c07a4c2b36838ef0a88b:

  ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it (2016-07-08 10:35:28 -0500)

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eCryptfs fixes for 4.7-rc7:

- Provide a more concise fix for CVE-2016-1583
  + Additionally fixes linux-stable regressions caused by the cherry-picking of
    the original fix
- Some very minor changes that have queued up
  + Fix typos in code comments
  + Remove unnecessary check for NULL before destroying kmem_cache

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Chris J Arges (1):
      ecryptfs: fix spelling mistakes

Jeff Mahoney (2):
      Revert "ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler"
      ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it

Julia Lawall (1):
      ecryptfs: drop null test before destroy functions

Wei Yuan (1):
      eCryptfs: fix typos in comment

 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c  |  8 ++++----
 fs/ecryptfs/file.c    | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c | 13 ++-----------
 fs/ecryptfs/main.c    |  3 +--
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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