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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 <benh@debian.org>
Mon, 19 May 2025 17:24:37 +0000 (19:24 +0200)
commitf2b453ac87ac37e3e4a556d47b85b6da8fa505fd
tree3be4d987b689f515d34581426b0b3ae98a4e10batree | snapshot
parent3c027cb5ed9fdc925b25b45aa5c4ab9e7aa1ee1fcommit | 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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