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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)
committerBastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:50:22 +0000 (10:50 +0100)
commitc02cf5095b9ff9aa798d2476650e9f7a1ce556f9
tree4070f20380a741b42bf0d32bf4590fbecc299207tree | snapshot
parentf38f22364695ddf9b640cf8d653c23b65a84aa9dcommit | 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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