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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>
Sun, 3 Dec 2017 19:41:55 +0000 (19:41 +0000)
commit09edcce8c6acda1ac83df385478946c30625a8ea
treeae4d31d509fc321f109ee95c8270c9f6b85ef5detree | snapshot
parenta0ceac3f750d29b91f8ea7cdc8069b4188cf7544commit | 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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