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 30 patches in this subsystem on lkml (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING4d [PATCH v3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-26 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v2 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD40d [PATCH 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>
• STALE109d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE67d Re: Linux 6.12.75
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE114d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE145d [PATCH] ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions()
  2026-01-22 · Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
• STALE163d [PATCH v6] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2026-01-07 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v5] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-30 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v5] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-29 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v4] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-28 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v3 sec cap tests] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-18 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-04 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v2] security: Rename functions and add namespace mapping tests
  2025-11-21 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE215d Re: [PATCH] Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns
  2025-11-19 · "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
• STALE184d [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH] Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns
  2025-11-14 · "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
• STALE163d [PATCH] security: Add KUnit tests for rootid_owns_currentns()
  2025-11-10 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• STALE332d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2] exec: Correct the permission check for unsafe exec
  2025-05-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE401d [PATCH] exec: Correct the permission check for unsafe exec
  2025-05-15 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE408d [PATCH] security/commoncap: don't assume "setid" if all ids are identical
  2025-03-06 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE480d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 07/12] reboot: add support for configuring emergency hardware protection action
  2025-02-17 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• STALE489d [PATCH v2 07/12] reboot: add support for configuring emergency hardware protection action
  2025-01-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• STALE470d [PATCH v2] capability: Remove unused has_capability
  2024-12-19 · <hidden>
• STALE531d [PATCH 06/11] reboot: add support for configuring emergency hardware protection action
  2024-12-19 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

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.

• STALE163d [PATCH v3 sec cap tests] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-18 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH v5] security: Add KUnit tests for kuid_root_in_ns and vfsuid_root_in_currentns
  2025-12-29 · Ryan Foster <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE114d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE109d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>