credentials · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• R Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>

Paths

• F include/linux/cred.h
• F kernel/cred.c
• F rust/kernel/cred.rs
• F Documentation/security/credentials.rst

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Igor Korotin <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-10

Recent patches

Most-recent 14 patches in this subsystem on linux-pm, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v21 4/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-09-10 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v20 5/8] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-08-24 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v7] rust: aref: make `AlwaysRefCounted::inc_ref` an associated function
  2026-06-28 · Trevor Chan <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6] rust: aref: make `AlwaysRefCounted::inc_ref` an associated function
  2026-06-28 · Trevor Chan <hidden>
• STALE80d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v19 5/8] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-06-26 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v18 5/8] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-06-25 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v17 06/10] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-06-04 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE208d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v16 03/10] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-24 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE214d REVIEWED: 34 (33M) [PATCH v15 2/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-20 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE231d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v14 2/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-04 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• STALE235d [PATCH v13 2/4] rust: `AlwaysRefCounted` is renamed to `RefCounted`.
  2025-11-17 · Oliver Mangold <hidden>
• STALE330d [PATCH v12 2/4] `AlwaysRefCounted` is renamed to `RefCounted`.
  2025-10-01 · Oliver Mangold <hidden>
• STALE4768d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 10/18] efi: Enable secure boot lockdown automatically when enabled in firmware
  2013-08-22 · Lee, Chun-Yi <hidden>
• STALE4768d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 09/18] Secure boot: Add a dummy kernel parameter that will switch on Secure Boot mode
  2013-08-22 · Lee, Chun-Yi <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD51d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6] rust: aref: make `AlwaysRefCounted::inc_ref` an associated function
  2026-06-28 · Trevor Chan <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v7] rust: aref: make `AlwaysRefCounted::inc_ref` an associated function
  2026-06-28 · Trevor Chan <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by