exec & binfmt api, elf · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/userspace-api/ELF.rst
• F fs/*binfmt_*.c
• F fs/Kconfig.binfmt
• F fs/exec.c
• F fs/tests/binfmt_*_kunit.c
• F fs/tests/exec_kunit.c
• F include/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/linux/elf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h
• F include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/uapi/linux/elf.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F mm/vma_exec.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/exec/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-alpha (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE295d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/4] copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE295d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE477d [PATCH RFC v2 25/29] mm: asi: Restricted execution fore bare-metal processes
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE477d [PATCH RFC v2 03/29] mm: asi: Introduce ASI core API
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE1319d [PATCH mm-unstable v1 20/20] mm: rename FOLL_FORCE to FOLL_PTRACE
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1596d [PATCH v2 18/18] uaccess: drop maining CONFIG_SET_FS users
  2022-02-16 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1604d [PATCH 14/14] uaccess: drop set_fs leftovers
  2022-02-14 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1644d [RFC PATCH 4/8] signals: Remove sigmask() macro
  2022-01-03 · Walt Drummond <hidden>
• STALE1831d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 19/70] sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
  2021-07-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE1831d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 20/80] sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
  2021-07-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE1827d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 20/85] sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
  2021-07-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE1841d [PATCH 7/9] signal: Make individual tasks exiting a first class concept.
  2021-06-24 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1843d Re: Kernel stack read with PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and io_uring threads
  2021-06-22 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1828d LANDED [PATCH] sched: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
  2021-05-12 · Valentin Schneider <hidden>
• STALE1827d [PATCH v1] binfmt: remove support for em86 (alpha only)
  2021-04-20 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE2196d [PATCH 17/17] arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
  2020-06-22 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2196d [PATCH 16/17] arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  2020-06-22 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2235d [PATCH 26/29] exec: use flush_icache_user_range in read_code
  2020-05-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2235d [PATCH 25/29] exec: only build read_code when needed
  2020-05-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2246d [PATCH v2 01/12] mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included
  2020-05-14 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2249d [PATCH 01/12] mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included
  2020-05-12 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2249d [PATCH 27/31] exec: only build read_code when needed
  2020-05-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2249d [PATCH 28/31] exec: use flush_icache_user_range in read_code
  2020-05-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2487d [PATCH v12 02/12] clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  2019-09-04 · Aleksa Sarai <hidden>
• STALE2570d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 1/2] pid: add pidfd_open()
  2019-05-20 · Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
• STALE2608d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/2] pid: add pidfd_open()
  2019-05-20 · Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
• STALE2610d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v1 1/2] pid: add pidfd_open()
  2019-05-16 · Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
• STALE2612d [PATCH 1/2] pid: add pidfd_open()
  2019-05-15 · Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
• STALE3403d [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm: Introduce first class virtual address spaces
  2017-03-13 · Till Smejkal <hidden>
• STALE3403d [RFC PATCH 08/13] kernel/fork: Define explicitly which mm_struct to duplicate during fork
  2017-03-13 · Till Smejkal <hidden>