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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>
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:39:51 +0000 (00:39 +0000)
commitc47277970990ada46d3b36a60bf66c458be81c16
tree73a2ecf227c77e19c32b4258e1e4de5ac4b0d820tree | snapshot
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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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