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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)
committerRaspbian forward porter <root@raspbian.org>
Sat, 5 May 2018 11:51:50 +0000 (12:51 +0100)
commitfffdf7f7fb1dec1c02bc9dbb5247ee904d9159a4
treeacbf60467d15ce730f383dd42d4de0b424726c89tree | snapshot
parent46463f8757a5969acbdd2502c001285c5a622dd2commit | 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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