From: Ben Hutchings Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:37:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: fanotify: Taint on use of FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/5.10.4-1+rpi1^2~44 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8400cf8352d0b494ebbb4047157f7cb4cbca03c1;p=linux.git 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 --- diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index 3e01d8f2ab9..84f43818a6b 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -1170,6 +1170,14 @@ static int do_fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, __u64 mask, if (ignored) mask &= ~FANOTIFY_EVENT_FLAGS; +#ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS + if (mask & FANOTIFY_PERM_EVENTS) { + pr_warn_once("%s (%d): Using fanotify permission checks may lead to deadlock; tainting kernel\n", + current->comm, current->pid); + add_taint(TAINT_AUX, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK); + } +#endif + f = fdget(fanotify_fd); if (unlikely(!f.file)) return -EBADF;