capabilities · Supported

Maintainers

• M Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/capability.h
• F include/trace/events/capability.h
• F include/uapi/linux/capability.h
• F kernel/capability.c
• F security/commoncap.c
• F security/commoncap_test.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on b4-sent, ordered by date desc.

• STALE868d [PATCH v2 22/25] fs: use vfs interfaces for capabilities xattrs
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v2 23/25] commoncap: remove cap_inode_getsecurity()
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v2 24/25] commoncap: use vfs fscaps interfaces
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v2 06/25] capability: provide helpers for converting between xattrs and vfs_caps
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v2 05/25] capability: use vfsuid_t for vfs_caps rootids
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v2 07/25] capability: provide a helper for converting vfs_caps to xattr for userspace
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v2 09/25] commoncap: use is_fscaps_xattr()
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 04/25] capability: rename cpu_vfs_cap_data to vfs_caps
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v2 03/25] capability: add static asserts for comapatibility of vfs_cap_data and vfs_ns_cap_data
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 03/16] capability: rename cpu_vfs_cap_data to vfs_caps
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 05/16] capability: provide helpers for converting between xattrs and vfs_caps
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 06/16] capability: provide a helper for converting vfs_caps to xattr for userspace
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 14/16] commoncap: remove cap_inode_getsecurity()
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 13/16] fs: use vfs interfaces for capabilities xattrs
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 15/16] commoncap: use vfs fscaps interfaces for killpriv checks
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE955d [PATCH 04/16] capability: use vfsuid_t for vfs_caps rootids
  2023-11-29 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>