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Recent patches

Latest 21 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-api touching this subsystem.

• userns: per-namespace capability bounding set and opt-in netns loopback v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 3/8] userns: allow restricting capability bounding set via clone3() 2026-10-28
  2026-10-28 · Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson <hidden>
• ucounts: RLIMIT_NPROC fixes v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 3/5] ucounts: Base set_cred_ucounts changes on the real user 2022-02-16
  2022-02-16 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• [PATCH v7 15/16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach 2020-03-30 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 15/16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach 2020-03-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 16/16] doc: Update documentation of ->exec_*_mutex 2020-03-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v6 09/16] kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c 2020-03-20 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/2] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach 2020-03-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/2] doc: Update documentation of ->exec_*_mutex 2020-03-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH 4/4] kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c 2020-03-10 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCHv6] exec: Fix a deadlock in ptrace 2020-03-04 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 08/25] cred: add kfs{g,u}id 2020-02-18
  2020-02-18 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 06/28] cred: add kfs{g,u}id 2020-02-14
  2020-02-14 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• General unprivileged mount support v2 v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 10 of 12 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH review 05/12] cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as() 2016-07-06
  2016-07-06 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• General unprivileged mount support v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 5 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH review 05/11] cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as() 2016-07-02
  2016-07-02 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• capabilities: Ambient capability patchset v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: REVIEWED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities 2015-07-14
  2015-07-14 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• capabilities: Ambient capability patchset v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities 2015-05-27
  2015-05-27 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• capabilities: Ambient capabilities v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities 2015-05-15
  2015-05-15 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] Add supplementary UIDs, and getusers/setusers system calls 2014-11-16 · Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
• Linux Checkpoint-Restart - v20 v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 85 of 96 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [C/R v20][PATCH 14/96] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions 2010-03-17
  • [C/R v20][PATCH 65/96] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials 2010-03-17
  • [C/R v20][PATCH 93/96] c/r: add generic LSM c/r support (v7) 2010-03-17
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• Kernel based checkpoint/restart [v18] v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 20 of 80 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v18 04/80] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions 2009-09-24
  • [PATCH v18 60/80] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials 2009-09-24
  2009-09-24 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• Kernel based checkpoint/restart v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 10 of 60 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC v17][PATCH 04/60] c/r: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions 2009-07-22
  • [RFC v17][PATCH 58/60] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials 2009-07-22
  2009-07-22 · Oren Laadan <hidden>