selinux security module

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Recent patches

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

• fs: don't use pseudo filesystem files as storage rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH RFC 18/41] selinux: use fc_init_pseudo() for selinuxfs 2026-11-10
  2026-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 13/13] security: convert VMA flag tests to use vma_flags_t 2026-11-05
  2026-11-05 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: convert further simple mmap hooks to mmap_prepare v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 07/14] selinuxfs: convert mmap hooks to mmap_prepare 2026-11-05
  2026-11-05 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v6 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v6 12/39] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-10-13
  2026-10-13 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v5 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 11/38] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-10-09
  2026-10-09 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 11/38] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-10-03
  2026-10-03 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 12/40] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-09-17
  2026-09-17 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 12/40] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-09-14
  2026-09-14 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 11/39] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check 2026-09-08
  2026-09-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code v4 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v4 17/25] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t 2026-03-20
  2026-03-20 · Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 17/23] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t 2026-03-18
  2026-03-18 · Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 17/23] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t 2026-03-16
  2026-03-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 13/20] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t 2026-03-12
  2026-03-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v4 · 3 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 33/54] selinuxfs: don't stash the dentry of /policy_capabilities 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 34/54] selinuxfs: new helper for attaching files to tree 2025-11-18
  • [PATCH v4 35/54] convert selinuxfs 2025-11-18
  2025-11-18 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v3 · 3 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v3 33/50] selinuxfs: don't stash the dentry of /policy_capabilities 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 34/50] selinuxfs: new helper for attaching files to tree 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v3 35/50] convert selinuxfs 2025-11-11
  2025-11-11 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• tree-in-dcache stuff v2 · 3 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v2 33/50] selinuxfs: don't stash the dentry of /policy_capabilities 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 34/50] selinuxfs: new helper for attaching files to tree 2025-10-28
  • [PATCH v2 35/50] convert selinuxfs 2025-10-28
  2025-10-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• [PATCH 31/39] convert selinuxfs 2025-09-20 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• nios2: Add architecture support for clone3 v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls v5 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v5 3/7] selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks 2025-05-12
  2025-05-13 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• introduce vm_flags modifier functions v4 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v4 4/7] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-01-26
  2023-01-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• introduce vm_flags modifier functions v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 4/7] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-01-25
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• introduce vm_flags modifier functions v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-01-25
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• Per-VMA locks v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 15/41] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-01-09
  2023-01-09 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v4] lockdown,selinux: fix wrong subject in some SELinux lockdown checks 2021-09-13 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• [PATCH v3] lockdown,selinux: fix wrong subject in some SELinux lockdown checks 2021-06-16 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] lockdown,selinux: avoid bogus SELinux lockdown permission checks 2021-05-17 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability v7 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v7 01/12] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space 2020-02-17
  2020-02-17 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability v6 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v6 01/10] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space 2020-01-28
  2020-02-05 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>