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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH 0/8] userns: per-namespace capability bounding set and opt-in netns loopback
  2026-10-28 22:18 · 2 replies in 7d · Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson <hidden>
• COOLING5d [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] security: introduce Kernel Assurance Plane
  2026-10-28 13:33 · 1 reply in 7d · Ketan Bhardwaj <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• HARIHARA SUDHAN. R <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-10-28

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH 3/8] userns: allow restricting capability bounding set via clone3()
  2026-10-28 · Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 2/8] userns: introduce capability bounding set for user namespaces
  2026-10-28 · Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson <hidden>
• COOLING5d [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] docs: security: Describe the Kernel Assurance Plane design
  2026-10-28 · Ketan Bhardwaj <hidden>
• COOLING11d [RFC PATCH] docs: security: Describe the Kernel Assurance Plane design
  2026-10-21 · Ketan Bhardwaj <hidden>
• COOLING11d [RFC PATCH v2 41/41] Documentation: uid_r: describe SMB and NFSv4
  2026-10-21 · Jan Koester <hidden>
• COOLING11d [RFC PATCH v2 35/41] Documentation: describe UUID and GUID user and group ids
  2026-10-21 · Jan Koester <hidden>
• COOLING9d [RFC PATCH 16/18] Documentation: filesystems: add beamfs
  2026-10-19 · Aurelien DESBRIERES <hidden>
• COOLING13d LANDED [PATCH net v3] net: unix: reject negative max_dgram_qlen values
  2026-10-16 · Yingjie Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 20/20] attestation: Add the TDX family implementation
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 19/20] attestation: Add the TDX family specification and generated files
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 18/20] tdx-guest: Expose the native attestation service API
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 17/20] attestation: Add CTLV operation handling
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 16/20] attestation: Prepare measurement register journal
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 15/20] attestation: Prepare provider and instance core
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 14/20] attestation: Add the base family specification and generated files
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 13/20] Documentation: ctlv: Describe how to write a family
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 04/20] Documentation: ctlv: Add userspace ABI
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 03/20] ctlv: Add the root family specification and generated files
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 02/20] ctlv: Add the UAPI wire format and family API
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC 01/20] ctlv: Add the schema language and generator
  2026-10-15 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• COLD15d [PATCH 3/5] hwmon: Add a generic interface for userspace implementations
  2026-10-09 · Jihong Min <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH 5/5] docs: hwmon: Document the uhwmon userspace interface
  2026-10-09 · Jihong Min <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-10-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-10-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-10-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-10-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-10-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm: restrict offload-only swap to proactive reclaim
  2026-09-26 · Matthias Goergens <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-09-17 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-09-17 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE112d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver +18 more in this series
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE83d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver +18 more in this series
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE144d [RFC PATCH v1 09/13] Documentation: describe spawn templates +12 more in this series
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD57d [RFC PATCH 24/24] Documentation: describe pidfd spawn builders +23 more in this series
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation: add failfs documentation +6 more in this series
  2026-07-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [RFC PATCH 6/7] sched/cache: Extend the enabled debugfs to more modes +6 more in this series
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH v3] drm/lease: optionally expose leases as device nodes
  2026-09-09 · Andrey Erokhin <hidden>
• COLD29d [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm: restrict offload-only swap to proactive reclaim +3 more in this series
  2026-09-26 · Matthias Goergens <hidden>