smack security module · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Smack.rst
• F security/smack/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on stable (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.252
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.202
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE108d 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>
• STALE113d 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>
• STALE104d [PATCH 6.18 185/641] smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE104d [PATCH 6.18 184/641] smack: /smack/doi must be > 0
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH 6.19 232/781] smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH 6.19 231/781] smack: /smack/doi must be > 0
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE149d [PATCH 5.10 028/451] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE155d [PATCH 5.15 035/554] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE161d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE160d [PATCH 6.1 041/634] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE124d [PATCH 6.6 047/737] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 007/614] smack: fix bug: setting task label silently ignores input garbage
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 006/614] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 005/614] smack: fix bug: invalid label of unix socket file
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 004/614] smack: always "instantiate" inode in smack_inode_init_security()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 003/614] smack: deduplicate xattr setting in smack_inode_init_security()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 002/614] smack: deduplicate "does access rule request transmutation"
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6.18 001/614] smack: fix bug: SMACK64TRANSMUTE set on non-directory
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.17 007/507] smack: fix bug: setting task label silently ignores input garbage
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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.

• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 001/354] smack: deduplicate "does access rule request transmutation"
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 002/354] smack: fix bug: SMACK64TRANSMUTE set on non-directory
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 003/354] smack: deduplicate xattr setting in smack_inode_init_security()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 004/354] smack: always "instantiate" inode in smack_inode_init_security()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 005/354] smack: fix bug: invalid label of unix socket file
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 006/354] smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.12 007/354] smack: fix bug: setting task label silently ignores input garbage
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.17 001/507] smack: deduplicate "does access rule request transmutation"
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.17 002/507] smack: fix bug: SMACK64TRANSMUTE set on non-directory
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH 6.17 003/507] smack: deduplicate xattr setting in smack_inode_init_security()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>