security subsystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• M James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
• M "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/lsm/
• F include/linux/lsm_audit.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
• F include/linux/security.h
• F include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
• F security/
• F tools/testing/selftests/lsm/
• F rust/kernel/security.rs
• X security/selinux/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 29 patches in this subsystem on linux-btrfs, ordered by date desc.

• STALE79d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE257d [PATCH v7 04/14] Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-10-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH v6 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-23 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH v5 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH v4 02/12] fs: use ->i_state accessors in core kernel
  2025-09-16 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH v3 2/4] fs: hide ->i_state handling behind accessors
  2025-09-11 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 10/10] fs: retire the I_WILL_FREE flag
  2025-09-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 02/10] fs: hide ->i_state handling behind accessors
  2025-09-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE292d [WIP RFC PATCH] fs: retire I_WILL_FREE
  2025-09-02 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 42/54] landlock: remove I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE check
  2025-08-26 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE298d LANDED [PATCH v2 02/54] fs: add an icount_read helper
  2025-08-26 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE312d [PATCH 40/50] landlock: remove I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE check
  2025-08-21 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE312d [PATCH 20/50] fs: convert i_count to refcount_t
  2025-08-21 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE563d [RFC v2] lsm: fs: Use inode_free_callback to free i_security in RCU callback
  2024-12-18 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE564d [RFC] lsm: fs: Use i_callback to free i_security in RCU callback
  2024-12-16 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE1817d [PATCH 01/24] namei: handle mappings in lookup_one_len()
  2021-07-13 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE2208d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2210d [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-04-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE3098d [PATCH v4 15/19] IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  2017-12-22 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE3117d [PATCH v3 15/19] IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  2017-12-18 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE3122d [PATCH v2 15/19] IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  2017-12-16 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE3317d [PATCH 10/12] apparmorfs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time()
  2017-04-08 · Deepa Dinamani <hidden>
• STALE3169d [RFC PATCH v1 24/30] IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  2016-12-21 · Jeff Layton <hidden>
• STALE4302d REVIEWED: 6 (4M) [PATCH v4 11/12] security, crypto: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS from ima_crypto.c
  2014-09-23 · <hidden>
• STALE4308d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 11/12] security, crypto: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS from ima_crypto.c
  2014-09-15 · <hidden>
• STALE4323d [PATCH RFC 5/6] apparmor: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS
  2014-09-02 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] security: new security_inode_init_security API adds function callback
  2011-06-23 · Mimi Zohar <hidden>
• STALE5475d [PATCH] fs/vfs/security: pass last path component to LSM on inode creation
  2010-12-08 · Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
• STALE5730d [PATCH 6/6] Btrfs: allow subvol deletion by owner
  2010-10-25 · Sage Weil <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE79d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>