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 30 patches in this subsystem on bpf (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE347d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE713d [PATCH bpf-next v4 03/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook inode_getsecurity
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE713d [PATCH bpf-next v4 01/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook vm_enough_memory
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE713d [PATCH bpf-next v4 02/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook inode_need_killpriv
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE738d [PATCH v2 3/4] capabilities: Add sysctl to mask off userns caps
  2024-06-09 · Jonathan Calmels <hidden>
• STALE738d [PATCH v2 1/4] capabilities: Add user namespace capabilities
  2024-06-09 · Jonathan Calmels <hidden>
• STALE818d [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: Introduce bpf_probe_write_user_registered()
  2024-04-04 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE756d [PATCH 03/10] capability: use new capable_any functionality
  2024-03-15 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE756d [PATCH 02/10] capability: add any wrappers to test for multiple caps with exactly one audit message
  2024-03-15 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE910d Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] devguard: added device guard for mknod in non-initial userns
  2023-12-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1126d [PATCH v4 3/9] capability: use new capable_any functionality
  2023-05-11 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE1126d [PATCH v4 2/9] capability: add any wrapper to test for multiple caps with exactly one audit message
  2023-05-11 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE1404d [RFC PATCH 2/2] capability: use new capable_or functionality
  2022-02-17 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE1746d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v29 02/28] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-09-24 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1777d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v28 02/25] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-07-22 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1846d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v27 02/25] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-06-11 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1867d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v26 02/25] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-05-13 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1942d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v25 02/25] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-03-09 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1960d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v24 02/25] LSM: Add the lsmblob data structure.
  2021-01-27 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE2015d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v23 02/23] LSM: Create and manage the lsmblob data structure.
  2020-11-20 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE2059d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v22 02/23] LSM: Create and manage the lsmblob data structure.
  2020-11-05 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE2065d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v22 02/23] LSM: Create and manage the lsmblob data structure.
  2020-11-04 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE2243d LANDED [PATCH v7 bpf-next 1/3] bpf, capability: Introduce CAP_BPF
  2020-05-13 · Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
• STALE2245d [PATCH v6 bpf-next 1/3] bpf, capability: Introduce CAP_BPF
  2020-05-13 · Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
• STALE2246d [PATCH v5 bpf-next 1/3] bpf, capability: Introduce CAP_BPF
  2020-05-08 · Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
• STALE2285d [PATCH v4 1/9] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-18 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2393d [PATCH v3 1/7] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-16 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2394d [PATCH v2 1/7] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-16 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2448d [PATCH] kernel: convert switch/case fallthrough comments to fallthrough;
  2019-10-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE2492d [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/4] capability: introduce CAP_BPF and CAP_TRACING
  2019-09-06 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>