e not yet found the cause.
The netlink interface breaking gave me the motivation to just finish my patch
to migrate to a regular device handle.  If I cannot find out soon why the
netlink interface in eCryptfs broke, I am likely to just send a patch to
disable it in 2.6.24 and 2.6.25.  I would like the device handle to be the
preferred means of communicating with the userspace daemon from 2.6.26 on
forward.

This patch:

Functions to facilitate reading and writing to the eCryptfs miscellaneous
device handle.  This will replace the netlink interface as the preferred
mechanism for communicating with the userspace eCryptfs daemon.

Each user has his own daemon, which registers itself by opening the eCryptfs
device handle.  Only one daemon per euid may be registered at any given time.
The eCryptfs module sends a message to a daemon by adding its message to the
daemon's outgoing message queue.  The daemon reads the device handle to get
the oldest message off the queue.

Incoming messages from the userspace daemon are immediately handled.  If the
message is a response, then the corresponding process that is blocked waiting
for the response is awakened.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>