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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>
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:02:58 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
commitbb248e6b4611ed83172d20d1f8a36c10effdafa6
tree76c27fdaf5eb436855ce7219df3accdb4bcef8a5tree | snapshot
parent847eeb84e5fef355afe976ae0a7a31565670838ccommit | 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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