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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)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Tue, 6 May 2025 19:33:52 +0000 (21:33 +0200)
commit81dd9a611938a0be0b4a0e3c9fd7ab6f86364d32
tree63eb4cf340555fd5fca05e02b81a3611e4c2c0aftree | snapshot
parent64126b165a745f275c40dc711b71c487588ad8afcommit | 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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