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 stable (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE93d 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>
• COLD52d Re: Linux 6.12.75
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d 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>
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.18 291/641] ipc: dont audit capability check in ipc_permissions()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.19 383/781] ipc: dont audit capability check in ipc_permissions()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE646d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 4.19 1/1] vfs: move cap_convert_nscap() call into vfs_setxattr()
  2024-08-29 · <hidden>
• STALE1289d Re: Linux 5.4.225
  2022-11-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1289d Re: Linux 4.19.267
  2022-11-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 4.14.300
  2022-11-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 4.9.334
  2022-11-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1285d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.4 017/156] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1288d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 4.19 008/114] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1290d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 4.14 05/88] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1285d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 4.9 05/76] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.0.9
  2022-11-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.79
  2022-11-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.155
  2022-11-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1298d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.0 044/190] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1299d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 034/131] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1298d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.10 21/95] capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
  2022-11-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.4.224
  2022-11-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 4.19.265
  2022-11-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 4.14.299
  2022-11-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1427d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 2/2] security: mark LSM hooks as __ro_after_init
  2022-07-10 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.52
  2022-07-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1437d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 10/12] fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystems
  2022-06-28 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1437d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 06/12] fs: use low-level mapping helpers
  2022-06-28 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1437d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH 02/12] fs: move mapping helpers
  2022-06-28 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d 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>
• STALE93d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>