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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>
Sun, 1 Oct 2017 14:52:09 +0000 (15:52 +0100)
commit13889bc438765a2053af2f8abcd4100b4d0e4766
tree50686470a6cd53c2f4b9788a45ccdaa9119c7953tree | snapshot
parent86bec0c235c3d313324d85b66fa455f9ed39c74bcommit | 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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