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 8 patches in this subsystem on linux-cifs, ordered by date desc.

• STALE300d [PATCH 01/12] cred: add prepare credential guard
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE299d [PATCH 01/16] cred: add {scoped_}with_creds() guards
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1403d LANDED [PATCH] cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred()
  2022-10-26 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1539d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1555d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1559d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE2526d [RFC PATCH 04/27] containers: Allow a process to be forked into a container
  2019-02-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE5502d Re: new sparse warning fs/cifs/cifsfs.c:168:15: warning: dereference of noderef expression fs/cifs/cifsfs.c:542:15: warning: dereference of noderef expression
  2011-08-07 · Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>