linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] capabilities update for v6.19

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Message-ID: <aTIm6grHZUhRncFH@mail.hallyn.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:27:22 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Foster <foster.ryan.r@...il.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] capabilities update for v6.19

Hi Linus,

This contains the capabilities changes for 6.19.  There is only a single commit,

   Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns

which introduces no functional change.  Ryan Foster had sent a patch
to add testing of the security/commoncap.c:rootid_owns_currentns()
function.  The patch pointed out that this function was not as clear
as it should be.

This commit has two purposes:

1. Clarify the intent of the function in the name
2. Split the function so that the base functionality is easier
   to test from a kunit test.

This commit has been in linux-next since November 18 with no reported
issues.  Ryan has posted an updated test patch based on this commit.

The following changes since commit 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada:

  Linux 6.18-rc2 (2025-10-19 15:19:16 -1000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux.git tags/caps-pr-20251204

for you to fetch changes up to 9891d2f79a9fe9b77ad290f950eb8fa3e375330e:

  Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns (2025-11-18 18:00:19 -0600)

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Capabilities patch for v6.19

There is only a single commit,

   Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns

which introduces no functional change.  Ryan Foster had sent a patch
to add testing of the security/commoncap.c:rootid_owns_currentns()
function.  The patch pointed out that this function was not as clear
as it should be.

This commit has two purposes:

1. Clarify the intent of the function in the name
2. Split the function so that the base functionality is easier
   to test from a kunit test.

This commit has been in linux-next since November 18 with no reported
issues.  Ryan has posted an updated test patch based on this commit.

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Serge Hallyn (1):
      Clarify the rootid_owns_currentns

 security/commoncap.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)