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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index 031df47a7c19..8be8b1979194 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ place where this information is gathered.
sysfs-platform_profile
vduse
futex2
+ lsm
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
index 4ea5b837399a..d8b6cb1a3636 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
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@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
<mailto:vgo@ratio.de>
0xB1 00-1F PPPoX
<mailto:mostrows@styx.uwaterloo.ca>
+0xB2 00 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr-vpd.h powerpc/pseries VPD API
+ <mailto:linuxppc-dev>
+0xB2 01-02 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr-sysparm.h powerpc/pseries system parameter API
+ <mailto:linuxppc-dev>
0xB3 00 linux/mmc/ioctl.h
0xB4 00-0F linux/gpio.h <mailto:linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>
0xB5 00-0F uapi/linux/rpmsg.h <mailto:linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
+.. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation
+
+=====================================
+Linux Security Modules
+=====================================
+
+:Author: Casey Schaufler
+:Date: July 2023
+
+Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement
+additional access controls to the Linux security policies.
+
+The various security modules may support any of these attributes:
+
+``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the
+process.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``.
+This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules.
+Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``.
+AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``.
+
+``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the
+current image was executed.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``.
+This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
+AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``.
+
+``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
+creating file system objects.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``.
+This is supported by the SELinux security module.
+
+``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
+creating key objects.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``.
+This is supported by the SELinux security module.
+
+``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the
+current security context was set.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``.
+This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
+AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``.
+
+``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
+creating socket objects.
+The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``.
+This is supported by the SELinux security module.
+
+Kernel interface
+================
+
+Set a security attribute of the current process
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
+ :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr
+
+Get the specified security attributes of the current process
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
+ :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr
+
+.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
+ :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules
+
+Additional documentation
+========================
+
+* Documentation/security/lsm.rst
+* Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst