security subsystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• M James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
• M "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/lsm/
• F include/linux/lsm_audit.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
• F include/linux/security.h
• F include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
• F security/
• F tools/testing/selftests/lsm/
• F rust/kernel/security.rs
• X security/selinux/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 17 patches in this subsystem on netfs, ordered by date desc.

• STALE123d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE125d Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] vfs: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-09 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE125d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 105/110] security: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 049/110] security: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE142d [PATCH 51/61] security: update audit format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 05/15] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 05/15] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE147d [PATCH 04/13] Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 08/15] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE249d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 07/14] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-11-06 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE256d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 07/14] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-10-29 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE471d LANDED [PATCH 4/6] VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
  2025-03-19 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE488d [PATCH 6/8] VFS: rename lookup_one_len() family to lookup_noperm() and remove permission check
  2025-03-14 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE508d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-20 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE536d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE555d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>