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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>
Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:08:59 +0000 (22:08 +0100)
commit07e4b864facd51895fef7a9ddb1b3a11f5e66b07
treec9026cb145c05030e5ee83ee0a39b929abc9cf4ftree | snapshot
parent1fbae82f8c5467cea0700e20318a302dca0b89eecommit | 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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