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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>
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:42:59 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commitd78bcdfb5c06dd38dbe86fe52b2e8a752ab48e57
treed943d794325eecd417a9f378e1febe85d61cd486tree | snapshot
parentac832c2a18c8b0e164e8434680133e3996265e21commit | 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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