Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add an explicit credentials entry

sergeh
2025-03-08T02:47:12Z

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 12:13:08PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 <paul@paul-moore.com>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> I haven't seen any objections, or any other volunteers, so I'm going
> to go ahead and merge this to send up to Linus during the upcoming
> merge window.

Sorry, I managed to not take my personal laptop charger with me
on a trip this week, fell behind.

I'm very happy with you as the maintainer, but I do volunteer to
try and step in here, if that works.

> > 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
> >
> > +CREDENTIALS
> > +M: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
> > +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 <ninad@linux.ibm.com>
> > L: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
> > --
> > 2.48.1
>
> --
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