smack security module · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Smack.rst
• F security/smack/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: add bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc for atomic inode labeling
  2026-07-08 00:10 · 1 reply in 7d · David Windsor <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-18

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v5 bpf-next 1/3] security: rework inode_init_security xattr handling
  2026-07-08 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/3] security: pass inode_init_security xattrs via struct lsm_xattrs
  2026-06-30 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/2] bpf: add bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc for atomic inode labeling
  2026-06-18 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-26 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v2 2/2] security: smack: fix spelling mistake
  2026-05-26 · <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH] Fix various spelling mistakes
  2026-05-25 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] smack: restrict smackfs/{direct,mapped} values to 0-255
  2026-05-24 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH 1/2] smack: deduplicate smackfs/{direct,mapped} file_operations
  2026-05-24 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] smack: show msgrcv() subject task in audit
  2026-05-11 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] smack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv
  2026-05-11 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH v2 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD59d [PATCH v2 1/2] bpf: add bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc for atomic inode labeling
  2026-05-03 · David Windsor <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH ported/repost v2] security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface
  2026-04-28 · Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] smack: simplify write handlers of sysfs entries
  2026-03-20 · Dmitry Antipov <hidden>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 net-next 06/15] smack: Remove IPPROTO_UDPLITE support in security_sock_rcv_skb().
  2026-03-11 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE120d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 net-next 06/15] smack: Remove IPPROTO_UDPLITE support in security_sock_rcv_skb().
  2026-03-05 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH v1 net-next 06/15] smack: Remove IPPROTO_UDPLITE support in security_sock_rcv_skb().
  2026-03-04 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE114d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH v2 105/110] security: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH v2 049/110] security: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE131d [PATCH 51/61] security: update audit format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE74d [RFC PATCH 3/3] LSM: Reserve use of secmarks
  2026-02-25 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH] lsm: move inode IS_PRIVATE checks to individual LSMs
  2026-02-20 · <hidden>
• 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>
• STALE160d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 03/11] smack: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  2025-10-17 · Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• STALE160d REVIEWED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v5 08/34] lsm: replace the name field with a pointer to the lsm_id struct
  2025-10-17 · Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• STALE247d [PATCH v6 5/5] Smack: add support for lsm_config_self_policy and lsm_config_system_policy
  2025-10-10 · Maxime Bélair <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH] security: smack: fix indentation in smack_access.c
  2025-10-09 · Taimoor Zaeem <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>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] smack: simplify write handlers of sysfs entries
  2026-03-20 · Dmitry Antipov <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] smack: show msgrcv() subject task in audit
  2026-05-11 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] smack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv
  2026-05-11 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH 1/2] smack: deduplicate smackfs/{direct,mapped} file_operations
  2026-05-24 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] smack: restrict smackfs/{direct,mapped} values to 0-255
  2026-05-24 · Konstantin Andreev <hidden>