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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>
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:56:17 +0000 (18:56 +0000)
commit7fff3a0531339c3a51924c9f937491aa4037b0d0
tree286f855f9c93140d016a1321f1e98dbc98190301tree | snapshot
parent0a487f61cb22816f6df0c0193e0440173058ef2acommit | 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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