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

Paul Moore
2025-03-08T17:01:14Z

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM <sergeh@kernel.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Send a patch adding yourself as either a maintainer or
reviewer, whichever you prefer, and I'll happily merge it. For
reference, I've merged the patch in this thread into the lsm/dev tree.