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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>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:43:33 +0000 (01:43 +0000)
commitcdf9ceffe33b2c848e87c85fb3bd65d0b085b31d
tree1b731917f6df52b2728959110eb05d762eb5d149tree | snapshot
parent9cbeb145764c28ecfb478944df37f8e197aaa121commit | 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
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c diff | blob | history
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