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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>
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 02:37:48 +0000 (03:37 +0100)
commit3bcdb02e0ad2e5cad2f6c739b8a66bd067401832
treef2866d87add1f68e2ef4618ab3a9da4ab15feaabtree | snapshot
parent57d2f36a3d29e65ca4a8ea29cb71e3a9b63c0897commit | 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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