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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>
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 13:44:14 +0000 (14:44 +0100)
commit6b67ae0cf540a54ebc0c678333810575efbf1322
tree614a74f00487014236c122e674372a92f472e8b5tree | snapshot
parent3cab1d142ab5ff886a7c72bf4eb4cc6e64726221commit | 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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