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fanotify: Taint on use of FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:37:22 +0000 (01:37 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Fri, 9 Dec 2022 05:54:57 +0000 (05:54 +0000)
commitfae1f2d1ca894b3176f7513cc9e1a22efee1ca0e
tree3c710729c14f6591236672b8c6b282013f29f44ftree | snapshot
parentce93d8c06ab5c70b53401cd08b60428402a83ed6commit | diff
fanotify: Taint on use of FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS

Forwarded: not-needed

Various free and proprietary AV products use this feature and users
apparently want it.  But punting access checks to userland seems like
an easy way to deadlock the system, and there will be nothing we can
do about that.  So warn and taint the kernel if this feature is
actually used.

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name fanotify-taint-on-use-of-fanotify_access_permissions.patch
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