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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, 27 May 2018 12:05:03 +0000 (13:05 +0100)
commit75289c73c60a10d1e90e191dd48a3c4357d3c2f3
tree934a9834cb4d3b3a40a76f9fa1146e9c5f7b4d4atree | snapshot
parent5783bb6f45f452265bdc077e98930eadfc4d4aadcommit | 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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