apparmor security module · Supported

Maintainers

• M John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
• M John Johansen <john@apparmor.net>
• M Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/apparmor.rst
• F security/apparmor/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE95d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH v2 105/110] security: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH v2 049/110] security: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE143d [PATCH 51/61] security: update audit format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 05/15] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE146d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 05/15] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE148d [PATCH 04/13] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE189d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 08/15] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE250d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 07/14] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-11-06 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE257d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 07/14] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-10-29 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE472d LANDED [PATCH 4/6] VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
  2025-03-19 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE489d [PATCH 6/8] VFS: rename lookup_one_len() family to lookup_noperm() and remove permission check
  2025-03-14 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE502d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE514d [PATCH] lsm,nfs: fix NFS4 memory leak of lsm_context
  2025-02-21 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE510d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-20 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE518d [PATCH 1/3] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-14 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE537d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE556d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE515d [PATCH v3 1/5] LSM: Ensure the correct LSM context releaser
  2024-10-23 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE636d [PATCH v2 1/6] LSM: Ensure the correct LSM context releaser
  2024-10-14 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE799d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE857d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE756d REVIEWED: 9 (7M) [PATCH v39 16/42] LSM: Ensure the correct LSM context releaser
  2023-12-15 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1007d [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super
  2023-09-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1123d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1123d [PATCH 07/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1498d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1515d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1519d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <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.

• STALE95d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>