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

• STALE248d [PATCH 01/12] cred: add prepare credential guard
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE247d [PATCH 01/16] cred: add {scoped_}with_creds() guards
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE248d [PATCH v4 11/72] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE253d [PATCH v3 11/70] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [PATCH v2 10/63] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-22 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE255d [PATCH RFC DRAFT 09/50] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE294d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1053d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2] creds: Convert cred.usage to refcount_t
  2023-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1351d LANDED [PATCH] cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred()
  2022-10-26 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1224d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v38 14/39] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-09-27 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1458d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v37 08/33] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-06-28 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1477d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v36 08/33] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-06-09 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1487d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1504d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1508d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1534d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v35 08/29] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-04-18 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1546d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v34 08/29] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-04-15 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1544d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v34 08/29] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-04-07 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1577d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v33 08/29] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-03-10 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1588d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v32 08/28] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2022-02-03 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1667d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v31 08/28] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-12-13 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1677d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v30 08/28] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-11-24 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1738d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/95] 4.19.209-rc1 review
  2021-10-04 · Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1749d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v29 07/28] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-09-24 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1780d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v28 07/25] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-07-22 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1849d [PATCH v27 07/25] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-06-11 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1870d [PATCH v26 07/25] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-05-13 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1945d [PATCH v25 07/25] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-03-09 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE1963d [PATCH v24 07/25] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2021-01-27 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
• STALE2018d [PATCH v23 05/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid
  2020-11-20 · Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>