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[Eugene San <eugenesan@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- ecryptfs exits with error message
+ ecryptfs fails to mount (Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING)

** Description changed:

+ ecryptfs seems to be currently broken on Trusty.
+ System: Trusty
+ Linux: 3.13.0-8-generic #28-Ubuntu
+ ecryptfs: 103-0ubuntu2 or 104-0ubuntu1
+ 
+ Any attempt to mount fails with:
+ Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel?
+ 
+ 
+ Original reporter mentioned earlier kernel also:
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ 
  I am using the fedora 19 default kernel, which should have ecryptfs
  support. I don't think something is wrong with my kernel. Nevertheless I
  get this strange error message. Googling it lead to nothing, so I
  suspect this is a bug in ecryptfs?
  
-  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  lsmod | grep ecrypt
- ecryptfs               85466  0 
+  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  lsmod | grep ecrypt
+ ecryptfs               85466  0
  encrypted_keys         18502  1 ecryptfs
-  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  mkdir -m 700 private
-  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  sudo mount -t ecryptfs private private
+  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  mkdir -m 700 private
+  iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  sudo mount -t ecryptfs private private
  Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel?
-  ✘ iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  uname -a
+  ✘ iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  uname -a
  Linux silence 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 13:03:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+ ---------------------------------------------------

** Changed in: ecryptfs
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Project changed: ecryptfs => linux (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  ecryptfs fails to mount (Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into
  the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING)

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  ecryptfs seems to be currently broken on Trusty.
  System: Trusty
  Linux: 3.13.0-8-generic #28-Ubuntu
  ecryptfs: 103-0ubuntu2 or 104-0ubuntu1

  Any attempt to mount fails with:
  Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel?

  
  Original reporter mentioned earlier kernel also:
  ------------------------------------------------

  I am using the fedora 19 default kernel, which should have ecryptfs
  support. I don't think something is wrong with my kernel. Nevertheless
  I get this strange error message. Googling it lead to nothing, so I
  suspect this is a bug in ecryptfs?

   iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  lsmod | grep ecrypt
  ecryptfs               85466  0
  encrypted_keys         18502  1 ecryptfs
   iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  mkdir -m 700 private
   iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  sudo mount -t ecryptfs private private
  Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel?
   ✘ iblue@silence  ~/ecrypt-test  uname -a
  Linux silence 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 13:03:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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