eCryptfs: remove netlink transport

The netlink transport code has not worked for a while and the miscdev
transport is a simpler solution.  This patch removes the netlink code and
makes the miscdev transport the only eCryptfs kernel to userspace
transport.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
index 8ebe9a5d1d99..046e027a4cb1 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/crypto.h>
-#include <linux/netlink.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/key.h>
@@ -49,8 +48,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ecryptfs_verbosity,
                  "0, which is Quiet)");
 
 /**
- * Module parameter that defines the number of netlink message buffer
- * elements
+ * Module parameter that defines the number of message buffer elements
  */
 unsigned int ecryptfs_message_buf_len = ECRYPTFS_DEFAULT_MSG_CTX_ELEMS;
 
@@ -60,9 +58,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ecryptfs_message_buf_len,
 
 /**
  * Module parameter that defines the maximum guaranteed amount of time to wait
- * for a response through netlink.  The actual sleep time will be, more than
+ * for a response from ecryptfsd.  The actual sleep time will be, more than
  * likely, a small amount greater than this specified value, but only less if
- * the netlink message successfully arrives.
+ * the message successfully arrives.
  */
 signed long ecryptfs_message_wait_timeout = ECRYPTFS_MAX_MSG_CTX_TTL / HZ;
 
@@ -83,8 +81,6 @@ module_param(ecryptfs_number_of_users, uint, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ecryptfs_number_of_users, "An estimate of the number of "
                  "concurrent users of eCryptfs");
 
-unsigned int ecryptfs_transport = ECRYPTFS_DEFAULT_TRANSPORT;
-
 void __ecryptfs_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
         va_list args;
@@ -779,10 +775,11 @@ static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
                        "rc = [%d]\n", __func__, rc);
                 goto out_do_sysfs_unregistration;
         }
-        rc = ecryptfs_init_messaging(ecryptfs_transport);
+        rc = ecryptfs_init_messaging();
         if (rc) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR "Failure occured while attempting to "
-                                "initialize the eCryptfs netlink socket\n");
+                                "initialize the communications channel to "
+                                "ecryptfsd\n");
                 goto out_destroy_kthread;
         }
         rc = ecryptfs_init_crypto();
@@ -797,7 +794,7 @@ static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
 
         goto out;
 out_release_messaging:
-        ecryptfs_release_messaging(ecryptfs_transport);
+        ecryptfs_release_messaging();
 out_destroy_kthread:
         ecryptfs_destroy_kthread();
 out_do_sysfs_unregistration:
@@ -818,7 +815,7 @@ static void __exit ecryptfs_exit(void)
         if (rc)
                 printk(KERN_ERR "Failure whilst attempting to destroy crypto; "
                        "rc = [%d]\n", rc);
-        ecryptfs_release_messaging(ecryptfs_transport);
+        ecryptfs_release_messaging();
         ecryptfs_destroy_kthread();
         do_sysfs_unregistration();
         unregister_filesystem(&ecryptfs_fs_type);