https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7369 http://kozlex.blogspot.com/2015/05/building-ecryptfs-on-redhat-7_19.html To fix ecryptfs and build it in the kernel follow is the partial fix: This is a fix that will not be proposed to upstream cause it is not compatible with other kernels; instead it is a patch to make ecryptfs work on Rhel7 only. --- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c 2015-03-06 13:45:38.000000000 -0800 +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c 2015-07-02 14:46:37.000000000 -0700 @@ -500,6 +500,7 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_mount(str struct path path; uid_t check_ruid; int rc; + int *s_stack_depth; sbi = kmem_cache_zalloc(ecryptfs_sb_info_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (!sbi) { @@ -567,10 +568,10 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_mount(str s->s_maxbytes = path.dentry->d_sb->s_maxbytes; s->s_blocksize = path.dentry->d_sb->s_blocksize; s->s_magic = ECRYPTFS_SUPER_MAGIC; - s->s_stack_depth = path.dentry->d_sb->s_stack_depth + 1; + s_stack_depth = get_s_stack_depth(path.dentry->d_sb); rc = -EINVAL; - if (s->s_stack_depth > FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) { + if ( *s_stack_depth > FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) { pr_err("eCryptfs: maximum fs stacking depth exceeded\n"); goto out_free; }