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>
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:19:06 +0000 (13:19 +0100)
commiteabdcb90b323d68192efd6804539483098e13349
tree6a597374921ca01fe2fec65aafc82eb1e57cb90f
parenteaefa03cfccb4bc88e21490cfd53e2dff9b81ef8
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
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c