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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)
committerBen Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:32:10 +0000 (23:32 +0100)
commit3440d679404173522affb263cab93a021d3cd83a
tree23f94282db9fbbc23f0592ad274649d1cc220f0etree | snapshot
parentb1a07892339b89ad444ae38810b55919047d930ecommit | 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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