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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC -next 00/12] landlock: Add READ_METADATA and WRITE_METADATA access rights
  2026-09-24 10:22 · 1 reply in 7d · Cai Xinchen <hidden>

Recent patches

Most-recent 6 patches in this subsystem on linux-cifs, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC -next 06/12] LSM: pass struct path to the inode xattr hooks
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH 13/27] fs: port xattr to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH 08/27] fs: port privilege checking helpers to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1565d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1581d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1585d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>