[RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add an explicit credentials entry
Paul Moore
paul at paul-moore.com
Fri Mar 7 17:13:08 UTC 2025
On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM Paul Moore <paul at 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 at 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.
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 896a307fa065..68e4656c15ea 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6139,6 +6139,14 @@ L: linux-input at vger.kernel.org
> S: Maintained
> F: drivers/hid/hid-creative-sb0540.c
>
> +CREDENTIALS
> +M: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> +L: linux-security-module at 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 at linux.ibm.com>
> L: linux-hwmon at vger.kernel.org
> --
> 2.48.1
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