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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>
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:23:17 +0000 (23:23 +0100)
commit3f7630d311c06a8b6ddee3c7bd489421fff18c2b
treeb181a39205538b531821a1b6a71dfc74cca04378tree | snapshot
parent5d251979ac970ca9da03b51f8f1bfe00b8404b6fcommit | 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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