kfence · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• M Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• R Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
• F arch/*/include/asm/kfence.h
• F include/linux/kfence.h
• F lib/Kconfig.kfence
• F mm/kfence/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE94d [PATCH v2 8/9] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE105d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE265d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v2 35/37] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-09-01 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE303d [PATCH v1 34/36] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-08-27 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE265d [PATCH RFC 33/35] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-08-21 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1192d LANDED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v12] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-17 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1203d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v11] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-16 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1203d [PATCH v10] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-16 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1203d Re: [PATCH v9] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-16 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1203d [PATCH v9] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-16 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1204d [PATCH v8] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-14 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1206d [PATCH v7] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-14 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1206d [PATCH v6] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-13 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1206d [PATCH v5] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-13 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1207d [PATCH v4] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-10 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1210d [PATCH v3] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-10 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1210d [PATCH v2] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-09 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1210d [PATCH] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement
  2023-03-09 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1240d [PATCH] mm: kfence: export kfence_enabled as global variables
  2023-02-07 · Zhenhua Huang <hidden>
• STALE1322d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1322d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1324d [PATCH v1 5/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1430d [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: kfence: apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool
  2022-06-28 · <hidden>
• STALE1465d [PATCH 1/1] mm: kfence: skip kmemleak alloc in kfence_pool
  2022-06-23 · <hidden>
• STALE1771d [PATCH 4/4] mm: kfence: Only load kfence_test when kfence is enabled
  2021-08-25 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE1864d [PATCH 1/2] kfence: allow providing __kfence_pool in arch specific way
  2021-05-24 · Jisheng Zhang <hidden>
• STALE2064d [PATCH] kfence: Use pt_regs to generate stack trace on faults
  2020-11-05 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2065d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 4/9] mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB
  2020-11-03 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2065d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 7/9] kfence, Documentation: add KFENCE documentation
  2020-11-03 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2065d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 8/9] kfence: add test suite
  2020-11-03 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

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.

• STALE105d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH v2 8/9] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>