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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)
committerBastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:33:58 +0000 (14:33 +0100)
commitee0ee832b98ec2075eeff35d9cf7a4470c3638f0
tree7dd45c9f8a3b500a0ba4fb1b2ba67966a91975b1tree | snapshot
parentdefd308c3916af97736b7e122c45ca83e608884ccommit | 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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