From 71496a33ab27455d2856284d21f261dd20780dc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:47:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] skip folders are these are not suid / guid

---
 usr/lib/security-misc/permission-hardening | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/usr/lib/security-misc/permission-hardening b/usr/lib/security-misc/permission-hardening
index 6a2cb86..6c33089 100755
--- a/usr/lib/security-misc/permission-hardening
+++ b/usr/lib/security-misc/permission-hardening
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ add_nosuid_statoverride_entry() {
       continue
     fi
 
+    if test -d "$file_name" ; then
+      ## https://forums.whonix.org/t/kernel-hardening/7296/323
+      true "skip folder: $file_name"
+      continue
+    fi
+
     setuid=""
     setuid_output=""
     if test -u "$file_name" ; then