capabilities · Supported

Maintainers

• M Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/capability.h
• F include/trace/events/capability.h
• F include/uapi/linux/capability.h
• F kernel/capability.c
• F security/commoncap.c
• F security/commoncap_test.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 26 patches in this subsystem on linux-xfs, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING14d [PATCH 13/27] fs: port xattr to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 08/27] fs: port privilege checking helpers to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD32d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 5/5] capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit
  2026-08-04 · cem@kernel.org
• COLD32d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 2/5] capability: Add new capable_noaudit
  2026-08-04 · cem@kernel.org
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 5/5] capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit
  2026-07-02 · cem@kernel.org
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v3 2/5] capability: Add new capable_noaudit
  2026-07-02 · cem@kernel.org
• COLD60d [RFC PATCH 4/4] capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit
  2026-06-26 · cem@kernel.org
• COLD60d [RFC PATCH 1/4] capabily: Add new capable_noaudit
  2026-06-26 · cem@kernel.org
• STALE1562d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 10/15] xfs: don't generate selinux audit messages for capability testing
  2022-06-03 · Leah Rumancik <hidden>
• STALE1663d [PATCH RESEND] xfs: don't generate selinux audit messages for capability testing
  2022-03-01 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
• STALE1666d [PATCH] xfs: don't generate selinux audit messages for capability testing
  2022-02-25 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
• STALE2017d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 09/40] xattr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2017d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 04/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2017d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 08/40] acl: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2017d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 10/40] commoncap: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2071d [PATCH v5 16/42] xattr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2071d [PATCH v5 17/42] commoncap: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2071d [PATCH v5 14/42] acl: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2071d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 10/42] capability: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE4782d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v8 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-08-15 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• STALE4799d [PATCH v8 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-08-01 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• STALE4801d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-07-30 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-07-25 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-07-24 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• STALE4813d [PATCH v4 3/7] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
  2013-07-17 · Dwight Engen <hidden>
• STALE4824d [PATCH 1/1] export inode_capable
  2013-07-06 · Serge Hallyn <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.

• COLD32d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 5/5] capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit
  2026-08-04 · cem@kernel.org · 2 Reviewed-by