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 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD49d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE79d Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] vfs: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-09 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH v2 105/110] security: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH v2 049/110] security: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH 51/61] security: update audit format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE133d [PATCH RESEND 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE227d [PATCH v7 04/14] Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-10-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE240d [PATCH v6 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-23 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE255d [PATCH v5 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE258d [PATCH v4 02/12] fs: use ->i_state accessors in core kernel
  2025-09-16 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE262d [PATCH v3 2/4] fs: hide ->i_state handling behind accessors
  2025-09-11 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE267d [PATCH v2 10/10] fs: retire the I_WILL_FREE flag
  2025-09-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE267d [PATCH v2 02/10] fs: hide ->i_state handling behind accessors
  2025-09-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE262d [WIP RFC PATCH] fs: retire I_WILL_FREE
  2025-09-02 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE268d [PATCH v2 42/54] landlock: remove I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE check
  2025-08-26 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE268d LANDED [PATCH v2 02/54] fs: add an icount_read helper
  2025-08-26 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE282d [PATCH 40/50] landlock: remove I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE check
  2025-08-21 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE282d [PATCH 20/50] fs: convert i_count to refcount_t
  2025-08-21 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE121d LANDED [PATCH v3 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes
  2024-11-20 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE560d [PATCH v2 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes
  2024-11-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 09/40] xattr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 04/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED [PATCH v6 26/39] ima: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED [PATCH v6 25/40] apparmor: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 08/40] acl: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1907d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 10/40] commoncap: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <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.

• STALE135d [PATCH 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE133d [PATCH RESEND 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>