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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 <benh@debian.org>
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 03:46:47 +0000 (04:46 +0100)
commit1d8841b5a62230c00fc725b3bbcb6709394efbd4
tree01d86685be543006334dfe8a5625ef5c2b3e59b7tree | snapshot
parentd202666afc37b92ef65cc3e6fde875291ac3fe56commit | diff
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
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