credentials · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• R Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>

Paths

• F include/linux/cred.h
• F kernel/cred.c
• F rust/kernel/cred.rs
• F Documentation/security/credentials.rst

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 26 patches in this subsystem on linux-api, ordered by date desc.

• STALE1609d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/5] ucounts: Base set_cred_ucounts changes on the real user
  2022-02-16 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v7 15/16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2020-03-30 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 15/16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2020-03-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 16/16] doc: Update documentation of ->exec_*_mutex
  2020-03-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 09/16] kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c
  2020-03-20 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE2306d [PATCH 1/2] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2020-03-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE2306d [PATCH 2/2] doc: Update documentation of ->exec_*_mutex
  2020-03-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE2316d [PATCH 4/4] kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c
  2020-03-10 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE2322d [PATCHv6] exec: Fix a deadlock in ptrace
  2020-03-04 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE2325d [PATCH v3 08/25] cred: add kfs{g,u}id
  2020-02-18 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2339d [PATCH v2 06/28] cred: add kfs{g,u}id
  2020-02-14 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE3655d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH review 05/12] cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as()
  2016-07-06 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE3660d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH review 05/11] cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as()
  2016-07-02 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE4015d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
  2015-07-14 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• STALE4052d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
  2015-05-27 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• STALE4066d [PATCH v2 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
  2015-05-15 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• STALE4096d [RFC] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
  2015-03-12 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [GIT PULL] User namespace related fixes
  2014-12-16 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE4259d [PATCH] Add supplementary UIDs, and getusers/setusers system calls
  2014-11-16 · Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
• STALE5948d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [C/R v20][PATCH 93/96] c/r: add generic LSM c/r support (v7)
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE5948d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [C/R v20][PATCH 65/96] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE5948d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [C/R v20][PATCH 14/96] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6132d [PATCH v18 60/80] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials
  2009-09-24 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6132d [PATCH v18 04/80] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions
  2009-09-24 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6189d [RFC v17][PATCH 58/60] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials
  2009-07-22 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6189d [RFC v17][PATCH 04/60] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions
  2009-07-22 · Oren Laadan <hidden>