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>
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:44:04 +0000 (19:44 +0000)
commit0a552de08c21e9bddb786ce8cd46f70e82a36bfd
tree7faf812f5c0709dfff1d44b15e89593b96d6a901
parent339482e922daef102facf23d74451ab7aa7ae450
fanotify: Taint on use of FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS

Forwarded: not-needed

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