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

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE202d [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE350d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE567d [PATCH v2 1/5] kernel: Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly
  2024-12-19 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE1030d [PATCH] lsm: constify the 'mm' parameter in security_vm_enough_memory_mm()
  2023-08-23 · Khadija Kamran <hidden>
• STALE1487d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1503d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1507d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE2417d [PATCH] mm: fix comments related to node reclaim
  2019-11-25 · Hao Lee <hidden>
• STALE2352d LANDED: 6 (4M) [PATCH] Add prctl support for controlling mem reclaim V4
  2019-11-12 · Mike Christie <hidden>
• STALE2432d [PATCH] Add prctl support for controlling mem reclaim V3
  2019-11-08 · Mike Christie <hidden>
• STALE2438d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v15 1/4] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-11-04 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2439d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v14 1/5] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-10-22 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2505d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v8] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-27 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2507d [PATCH v7] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-20 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-20 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2515d [PATCH v5] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-19 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2519d [PATCH v4] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-15 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-14 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2520d [PATCH v2] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-13 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2519d [PATCH] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-08-12 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• STALE2527d [PATCH v13 2/5] Add flags option to get xattr method paired to __vfs_getxattr
  2019-07-31 · Mark Salyzyn <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [REVIEW][PATCH 3/3] exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files
  2016-11-17 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE3521d [REVIEW][PATCH 1/3] ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP
  2016-11-17 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE3867d [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
  2015-12-07 · Jann Horn <hidden>
• STALE3867d [PATCH] ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
  2015-12-06 · Jann Horn <hidden>
• STALE3867d [PATCH] ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
  2015-11-08 · Jann Horn <hidden>
• STALE5846d [PATCH 1/2] security: add const to security_task_setscheduler()
  2010-07-06 · KOSAKI Motohiro <hidden>
• STALE5942d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [C/R v20][PATCH 65/96] c/r: checkpoint and restore task credentials
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE5942d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [C/R v20][PATCH 64/96] c/r: capabilities: define checkpoint and restore fns
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>