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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 <benh@debian.org>
Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:50:00 +0000 (18:50 +0100)
commitcb5e8ba3545e593e5b6e923adb8cd56c744b36a8
tree607bc2ecf26796a38285175572ae539c67dc3e64tree | snapshot
parentcae1cf3f49d90d24cf6ccdd925c798833cedf373commit | 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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