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 10 patches in this subsystem on linux-input, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING9d [PATCH v6 4/4] tree-wide: purge verified remaining legacy ghost options
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2] Kconfig: purge twenty-eight legacy ghost options (v2)
  2026-09-04 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] Kconfig: purge twenty-nine legacy ghost options
  2026-09-04 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• STALE151d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE858d [PATCH v2 4/5] selftests: Drop define _GNU_SOURCE
  2024-05-07 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE2533d [RESEND TRIVIAL 2/3] treewide: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-04 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2548d [PATCH trivial 2/3] treewide: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-09-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2960d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v4 04/26] docs: fix broken references with multiple hints
  2018-06-15 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2995d [PATCH v3 04/27] docs: fix broken references with multiple hints
  2018-06-14 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE3014d [PATCH v2 11/11] docs: fix broken references with multiple hints
  2018-05-09 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE151d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>