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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>
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:27:47 +0000 (16:27 +0100)
commitd2ae7cda2ac4c0038bf9bb85ba46233b13d52090
tree363c34b75700d1d5c8b8d03e6d731b2923b33482tree | snapshot
parent06fca001af737c7248190d07cbb767d34886fc46commit | 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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