ptrace support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Paths

• F arch/*/*/ptrace*.c
• F arch/*/include/asm/ptrace*.h
• F arch/*/ptrace*.c
• F include/asm-generic/syscall.h
• F include/linux/ptrace.h
• F include/linux/regset.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
• F kernel/ptrace.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 15/24] fork: keep embryonic tasks hidden until exec completes
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 12/24] fork: let kernel callers create embryonic tasks
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE514d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v7 5/6] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-03-03 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE563d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v6 5/6] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-02-17 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE572d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v5 6/7] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-02-10 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE580d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v4 6/7] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-02-03 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE585d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v3 5/6] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-01-28 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE594d [PATCH v2 6/7] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-01-13 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE604d [PATCH 5/6] ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO request
  2025-01-07 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH v1] syscall_user_dispatch: ptrace SUSPEND feature for checkpoint/restore
  2023-01-04 · Gregory Price <hidden>
• STALE1341d [PATCH v4 33/39] x86: Prevent 32 bit operations for 64 bit shstk tasks
  2022-12-03 · Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
• STALE921d LANDED [PATCH 03/30] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-11-22 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1385d [PATCH v5 02/24] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-11-03 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1403d Re: [PATCH v2 00/39] Shadowstacks for userspace
  2022-10-04 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1441d [PATCH v4 02/25] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-09-22 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1446d [RFC PATCH v4 02/25] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-09-21 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1494d [PATCH v3 02/23] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-07-29 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1634d [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
  2022-03-15 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1634d [PATCH 1/2] ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
  2022-03-15 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1654d [RFC PATCH v2 02/11] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-02-18 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1665d [RFC] Get siginfo from unreaped task
  2022-02-12 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1672d [RFC PATCH 2/3] rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI
  2022-02-03 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1678d [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] rseq: extend struct rseq with numa node id
  2022-02-01 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1679d [RFC PATCH 1/2] rseq: extend struct rseq with numa node id
  2022-01-31 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE1699d [PATCH 11/17] ptrace: Separate task->ptrace_code out from task->exit_code
  2022-01-03 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1699d [PATCH 10/17] ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
  2022-01-03 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1699d [PATCH 09/17] ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
  2022-01-03 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1699d [PATCH 06/17] ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  2022-01-03 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/6] ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
  2021-09-24 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE1809d [PATCH 2/6] ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
  2021-09-24 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>

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.

• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 15/24] fork: keep embryonic tasks hidden until exec completes
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>