[PATCH 0/2] fanotify: avid some premature LSM checks

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Thu Feb 26 14:19:05 UTC 2026


On Tue 17-02-26 12:09:34, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 16-02-26 16:06:23, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > Restructure some of the validity and security checks in
> > fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c to avoid generating LSM access
> > denials in the audit log where hey shouldn't be.
> > 
> > Ondrej Mosnacek (2):
> >   fanotify: avoid/silence premature LSM capability checks
> >   fanotify: call fanotify_events_supported() before path_permission()
> >     and security_path_notify()
> > 
> >  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 50 ++++++++++++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> The series looks good to me as well. Thanks! I'll commit the series to my
> tree once the merge window closes and fixup the comment formatting on
> commit. No need to resend.

Pushed the series to my tree now.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR



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