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 23 patches in this subsystem on linux-sh, ordered by date desc.

• COLD53d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE263d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE382d [PATCH v5 2/7] lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  2025-05-13 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE390d [PATCH v5 2/7] lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  2025-05-12 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE392d [PATCH v5 2/7] lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  2025-05-12 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE407d [PATCH v4 1/3] lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  2025-03-21 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE488d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v5 -next 07/16] security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  2025-01-11 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE516d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  2024-12-28 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE516d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE516d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE537d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  2024-10-10 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE641d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2 -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl into its own file
  2024-09-03 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE645d [PATCH -next 07/15] security: min_addr: move sysctl into its own file
  2024-08-26 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE2366d [PATCH v18 03/13] namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errors
  2019-12-06 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2393d [PATCH RESEND v17 03/13] namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errors
  2019-11-20 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2385d [PATCH v17 03/13] namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errors
  2019-11-17 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2396d [PATCH v16 02/12] namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errors
  2019-11-16 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2398d Re: [PATCH v15 3/9] namei: LOOKUP_NO_XDEV: block mountpoint crossing
  2019-11-13 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE2443d [PATCH v13 1/9] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions
  2019-09-30 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2519d [PATCH 11/12] Documentation/x86: repointer docs to Documentation/arch/
  2019-07-12 · Alex Shi <hidden>
• STALE2526d [PATCH v1 11/22] docs: admin-guide: add .rst files from the main dir
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE3513d [PATCH 07/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  2016-10-13 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE4637d Re: mm: insure topdown mmap chooses addresses above security minimum
  2013-09-25 · Timothy Pepper <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.

• COLD53d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>