security subsystem

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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-usb touching this subsystem.

• fs: don't use pseudo filesystem files as storage rfc · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 17/41] securityfs: use fc_init_pseudo() 2026-11-10
  • [PATCH RFC 19/41] smack: use fc_init_pseudo() for smackfs 2026-11-10
  • [PATCH RFC 20/41] apparmor: use fc_init_pseudo() for apparmorfs 2026-11-10
  2026-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v6 4/4] tree-wide: purge verified remaining legacy ghost options 2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] Kconfig: purge twenty-eight legacy ghost options (v2) 2026-09-04 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• [PATCH] Kconfig: purge twenty-nine legacy ghost options 2026-09-04 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• Add Apple T2 NHI device links v5 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 1/2] treewide: Add a flag to detect the Apple T2 chip 2026-07-27
  2026-07-27 · Atharva Tiwari <hidden>
• Add Apple T2 NHI device links v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/2] treewide: Add a flag to detect the Apple T2 chip 2026-07-24
  2026-07-24 · Atharva Tiwari <hidden>
• Add Apple T2 NHI device links v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/2] treewide: Add a flag to detect the Apple T2 chip 2026-07-21
  2026-07-21 · Atharva Tiwari <hidden>
• Add Apple T2 NHI device links v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/2] treewide: Add a flag to detect the Apple T2 chip 2026-07-21
  2026-07-21 · Atharva Tiwari <hidden>
• Add Apple T2 NHI device links v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/2] treewide: Add a flag to detect the Apple T2 chip 2026-07-19
  2026-07-19 · Atharva Tiwari <hidden>
• Convert moduleparams to seq_buf v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS 2026-05-21
  • [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf 2026-05-21
  • [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci 2026-05-21
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• rxrpc: Miscellaneous fixes v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH net v3 04/11] list: Move on_list_rcu() to list.h and add on_list() also 2026-03-26
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• treewide: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check - refactor v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 61 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v4 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 20 of 54 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 10/54] configfs, securityfs: kill_litter_super() not needed 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 12/54] convert smackfs 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 52/54] convert securityfs 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 53/54] kill securityfs_recursive_remove() 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 54/54] d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry 2025-11-18
  2025-11-18 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v3 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 10/50] configfs, securityfs: kill_litter_super() not needed 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 12/50] convert smackfs 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 48/50] convert securityfs 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 49/50] kill securityfs_recursive_remove() 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 50/50] d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry 2025-11-11
  2025-11-11 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v2 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 10/50] configfs, securityfs: kill_litter_super() not needed 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 12/50] convert smackfs 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 48/50] convert securityfs 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 49/50] kill securityfs_recursive_remove() 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 50/50] d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry 2025-10-28
  2025-10-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• [PATCH 10/39] convert smackfs 2025-09-20 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• [PATCH 08/39] configfs, securityfs: kill_litter_super() not needed 2025-09-20 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string() 2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH 12/19] fs: convert kill_litter_super to litter_shutdown_sb 2023-09-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super 2023-09-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• fs: add some missing ctime updates v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 8 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 7/8] apparmor: update ctime whenever the mtime changes on an inode 2023-06-12
  2023-06-12 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• fs: add some missing ctime updates v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 8/9] apparmor: update ctime whenever the mtime changes on an inode 2023-06-09
  2023-06-09 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• Introduce flexible array struct memcpy() helpers v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 26/32] ima: Use mem_to_flex_dup() with struct modsig 2022-05-04
  • [PATCH 27/32] KEYS: Use mem_to_flex_dup() with struct user_key_payload 2022-05-04
  2022-05-04 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• [PATCH] treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array member 2020-02-11 · Gustavo A. R. Silva <hidden>
• pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #3] rfc · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 14 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 02/14] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch [ver #3] 2020-01-15
  • [RFC PATCH 03/14] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion [ver #3] 2020-01-15
  • [RFC PATCH 06/14] keys: Add a notification facility [ver #3] 2020-01-15
  • [RFC PATCH 14/14] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks [ver #3] 2020-01-15
  2020-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #2] rfc · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 14 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 02/14] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch [ver #2] 2019-11-07
  • [RFC PATCH 03/14] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion [ver #2] 2019-11-07
  • [RFC PATCH 06/14] keys: Add a notification facility [ver #2] 2019-11-07
  • [RFC PATCH 14/14] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks [ver #2] 2019-11-07
  2019-11-07 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• pipe: Notification queue preparation [ver #3] rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 01/11] pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h [ver #3] 2019-11-01
  2019-11-01 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• pipe: Notification queue preparation [ver #2] rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 01/10] pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h [ver #2] 2019-10-23
  2019-10-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications rfc · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 21 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 01/21] pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h 2019-10-15
  • [RFC PATCH 10/21] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch 2019-10-15
  • [RFC PATCH 11/21] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion 2019-10-15
  • [RFC PATCH 13/21] keys: Add a notification facility 2019-10-15
  • [RFC PATCH 21/21] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks 2019-10-15
  2019-10-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #8] v1 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 5 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 02/11] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch [ver #8] 2019-09-04
  • [PATCH 03/11] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion [ver #8] 2019-09-04
  • [PATCH 05/11] keys: Add a notification facility [ver #8] 2019-09-04
  • [PATCH 11/11] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks [ver #8] 2019-09-04
  2019-09-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>