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 19 patches in this subsystem on cgroups, ordered by date desc.

• COLD15d [PATCH v4] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook
  2026-07-20 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE88d [PATCH v3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-26 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE120d [PATCH v2 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE124d [PATCH 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE1812d [PATCH 03/11] security: commoncap: fix -Wstringop-overread warning
  2021-03-22 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE3555d [PATCH] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups
  2016-12-17 · John Stultz <hidden>
• STALE3561d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups
  2016-12-13 · John Stultz <hidden>
• STALE3616d [PATCH] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups
  2016-10-17 · John Stultz <hidden>
• STALE3630d [RFC][PATCH] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups
  2016-10-05 · John Stultz <hidden>
• STALE3715d [PATCH] capabilities: audit capability use
  2016-07-11 · Topi Miettinen <hidden>
• STALE3718d [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller
  2016-06-23 · Topi Miettinen <hidden>
• STALE3734d [RFC] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller
  2016-06-18 · Topi Miettinen <hidden>
• STALE3707d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 17/21] capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs
  2016-04-26 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• STALE3707d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 08/21] userns: Replace in_userns with current_in_userns
  2016-04-26 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• STALE3707d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 06/21] fs: Treat foreign mounts as nosuid
  2016-04-26 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 08/21] userns: Replace in_userns with current_in_userns
  2016-04-26 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• STALE3792d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 06/21] fs: Treat foreign mounts as nosuid
  2016-04-22 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• STALE3792d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 17/21] capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs
  2016-04-22 · Seth Forshee <hidden>
• STALE3792d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 08/21] userns: Replace in_userns with current_in_userns
  2016-04-22 · Seth Forshee <hidden>