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[71.126.255.178]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 6a1803df08f44-6e8e0dfc272sm10175186d6.17.2025.03.04.14.23.12 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Moore To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add an explicit credentials entry Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:23:05 -0500 Message-ID: <20250304222304.214704-2-paul@paul-moore.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.48.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=openpgp-sha256; l=1359; i=paul@paul-moore.com; h=from:subject; bh=gH0QN/FxHO7p9TT2E0NP+y8EnZdj1mQdjZnq4O6Oizk=; b=owEBbQKS/ZANAwAIAeog8tqXN4lzAcsmYgBnx31IWXl01geg3RExV36vOIe9OgqQ05PFBNITc aBHkpW/luqJAjMEAAEIAB0WIQRLQqjPB/KZ1VSXfu/qIPLalzeJcwUCZ8d9SAAKCRDqIPLalzeJ c43qD/9EA1jts12wX6HK0HRkLPO+TRnqTzmDPj9JMIBLm4oaqTVmU1zqpszaKW4Mzrv4/hcwq3f yEshgiHPbSZuDCHbSJkj+lZrzRgBJy1PiQS4rJLNLdpmQrFVXcJgBAo58wEXUIrrhFpeDPexzZd cDHA36PyWYeVaL28a4wTNUDQqmfW/ND9jHkLIRxVCAZaBEygkfMTb2oMuScFQSmemCeQKurVA6K /C6iZQaozoGao8TTXv53pT5VCjIxIN4EtI7e1/oUq2ihzlsdDchCWLUR9PWFEWcmVr9DeEIpuZe 7QB5xe6FhZeMDlMkBGazNIExdIXoWRh/dq1CVG77rBS2qjyZJBH0srZ37ELsKshtQ9L4qzdiJzm izJHeIRG+3MTORVhNqfFU6POxnK1MX4xx+TWKF3h7ZsCR8mmuD7hAzgrSFf0L/D68GllglKd/yS nNFqadr2Jl+fVWQ645zLpyC3/R7iUYOYG4kknwnfcVGdeEofjfC2CoiaLHmEFbjqvFqKDtRcQaW s44ymhbSPR+PyfN6f/i7NROE12o5UkGYcZKH9RBDYAI2yjSIpi0qgScQ0omYhzoCFR9QYmawTMc OxHqWxiMPWjaZ5oO2U41oyuqm/M/TvdpdTxID5b48nfDSGdHTXCrZAVM7YiuIyTQLiXGhG8zSv5 /LCw/zGVFUa2O5A== X-Developer-Key: i=paul@paul-moore.com; a=openpgp; fpr=7100AADFAE6E6E940D2E0AD655E45A5AE8CA7C8A Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The lack of an explicit credential (kernel/cred.c) entry has caused confusion in the past among new, and not-so-new developers, about where to send credential patches for discussion and merging. Those patches that are sent can often rot on the mailing lists for months as there is no clear maintainer tasked with reviewing and merging patches. I'm volunteering for the cred maintainer role to try and reduce the confusion and help cred patches find their way up to Linus' tree. As there generally aren't a lot of cred patches I'll start with simply folding them into the LSM tree, but if this changes I'll setup a dedicated cred tree. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: G=C3=BCnther Noack --- MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 896a307fa065..68e4656c15ea 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -6139,6 +6139,14 @@ L: linux-input@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/hid/hid-creative-sb0540.c =20 +CREDENTIALS +M: Paul Moore +L: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org +S: Supported +T: git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm.git +F: include/linux/cred.h +F: kernel/cred.c + INTEL CRPS COMMON REDUNDANT PSU DRIVER M: Ninad Palsule L: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org --=20 2.48.1