linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] capabilities update for 6.15

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Message-ID: <20250328040726.GA423659@mail.hallyn.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:07:26 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] capabilities update for 6.15

Hi Linus,

this PR just contains one patch to drop an unused helper.  Please merge.

thanks,
-serge

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The following changes since commit 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b:

  Linux 6.14-rc1 (2025-02-02 15:39:26 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux.git tags/caps-pr-20250327

for you to fetch changes up to 4ae89b1fe7c2e37a8f2ea39765e4c40c9d42a101:

  capability: Remove unused has_capability (2025-03-07 22:03:09 -0600)

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Capabilities update for 6.15

This branch contains one patch:

    capability: Remove unused has_capability

This removes a helper function whose last user (smack) stopped using
it in 2018.

This has been in linux-next for most of the the last cycle with no
apparent issues.  It is available at:

git@....kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux.git #caps-20250327

on top of commit 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b (tag: v6.14-rc1)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. David Alan Gilbert (1):
      capability: Remove unused has_capability

 include/linux/capability.h |  5 -----
 kernel/capability.c        | 16 ----------------
 security/commoncap.c       |  9 +++++----
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)