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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>
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:01:21 +0000 (03:01 +0100)
commiteea1fbb9b4e49715105738504ba545af4c5a6349
treef66d473ea327ba4a43840272c1d0afc7510ac77ctree | snapshot
parent98b758dcfb3fa41b8440af9a1c2d9f917f2db55dcommit | 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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