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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 <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:32:11 +0000 (15:32 +0000)
commit1362b2705663195c415ef935dc72e38a57c6bcad
tree640b9f8e8de513fe9fb66aab5d6277c0a2f4f508tree | snapshot
parent658a1b27cdaf12625aeaca8b7949d99148d9e7f9commit | diff
fanotify: Taint on use of FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS

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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