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 20 patches in this subsystem on linux-omap, ordered by date desc.

• STALE93d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE766d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2475d [RESEND TRIVIAL 2/3] treewide: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-04 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2490d [PATCH trivial 2/3] treewide: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-09-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2559d [PATCH 11/12] Documentation/x86: repointer docs to Documentation/arch/
  2019-07-12 · Alex Shi <hidden>
• STALE2607d [PATCH 2/3][V2] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2607d [PATCH 02/16] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE3970d Re: [PATCH v2] security: device_cgroup: fix RCU lockdep splat
  2015-09-03 · Paul E. McKenney <hidden>
• STALE3970d [PATCH v2] security: device_cgroup: fix RCU lockdep splat
  2015-09-02 · Felipe Balbi <hidden>
• STALE3970d [PATCH] security: device_cgroup: fix RCU lockdep splat
  2015-08-31 · Felipe Balbi <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 10/10] lowmem: Remove the possibility to stack the module
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 06/10] lowmem: update memory management functions for the new kernel
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 09/10] lowmem: Fix split of ptrace
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 08/10] lowmem: add compatibility code
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 01/10] Security: Kernel OOM-killer and allocation denial use different rules
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 05/10] lowmem: sysfs has changed
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 07/10] lowmem: Security modules can no longer be removed.
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 04/10] lowmem: remove an unecessary local variable
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 03/10] lowmem: get rid of the percentages
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <hidden>
• STALE6515d [PATCH 02/10] lowmem: remove unecessary usage of proc_dointvec_minmax()
  2008-09-11 · Viktor Rosendahl <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.

• STALE93d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>