[GIT PULL] Smack patches for 7.3

From: Casey Schaufler

Date: Thu Aug 13 2026 - 17:04:02 EST


Hello Linus,

Here is the Smack pull request for v7.3.

Everything has been in next. There is a spelling error correction,
There is a code optimization in the smackfs file system. A pair of
credential mis-uses have been fixed. Limits have been placed on two
of the smackfs interfaces.

The following changes since commit f338e77383789c0cae23ca3d48adcc5e9e137e3c:

Linux 7.0-rc4 (2026-03-15 13:52:05 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next tags/Smack-for-7.3

for you to fetch changes up to fedc88e38ce979a720cd2de042578cb5df3dc8de:

smack: fix cred UAF in smack_file_send_sigiotask() (2026-08-08 09:47:22 -0700)

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Patches for v7.3

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Casey Schaufler (1):
Smack: Fix error in capability bypass

Dmitry Antipov (1):
smack: simplify write handlers of sysfs entries

Jann Horn (1):
smack: fix cred UAF in smack_file_send_sigiotask()

Konstantin Andreev (4):
smack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv
smack: show msgrcv() subject task in audit
smack: deduplicate smackfs/{direct,mapped} file_operations
smack: restrict smackfs/{direct,mapped} values to 0-255

Qingshuang Fu (1):
security: smack: fix spelling mistake

security/smack/smack.h | 6 +-
security/smack/smack_access.c | 9 ++
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 71 ++++++++++----
security/smack/smackfs.c | 220 +++++++++++++-----------------------------
4 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)