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

Recent patches

Most-recent 17 patches in this subsystem on linux-unionfs, ordered by date desc.

• STALE268d [PATCH 01/12] cred: add prepare credential guard
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE267d [PATCH 01/16] cred: add {scoped_}with_creds() guards
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE621d [PATCH v4 1/4] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-11-07 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE630d [PATCH overlayfs-next v3 1/4] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-11-05 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE660d [PATCH v2 06/16] cred: Introduce cred_guard() and cred_scoped_guard() helpers
  2024-08-22 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE660d [PATCH v2 01/16] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-08-22 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE825d [PATCH v1 1/3] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-04-03 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE855d Re: [RFC v3 1/5] cleanup: Fix discarded const warning when defining lock guard
  2024-03-18 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE855d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [RFC v3 3/5] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-02-16 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE915d [RFC v2 2/4] cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
  2024-01-25 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE918d Re: [RFC] HACK: overlayfs: Optimize overlay/restore creds
  2023-12-19 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE918d [RFC] HACK: overlayfs: Optimize overlay/restore creds
  2023-12-14 · Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
• STALE1507d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1524d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1528d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE2352d [PATCH v3 2/3] fs: introduce uid/gid shifting bind mount
  2020-02-17 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE2385d [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: introduce uid/gid shifting bind mount
  2020-01-04 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>