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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v19 00/40] DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 06:19 · 1 reply in 7d · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Harry Yoo <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Gwan-gyeong Mun <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Yunseong Kim <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Yeoreum Yun <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD23d [PATCH 1/2] kernel/fork: clear PF_BLOCK_TS in copy_process()
  2026-06-16 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• COLD27d Re: [PATCH v2] block: invalidate cached plug timestamp after task switch
  2026-06-12 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v18 01/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE220d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v17 02/47] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE294d 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>
• STALE294d 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>
• STALE350d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v16 02/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-19 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE419d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v15 02/43] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-13 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE592d [PATCH v14 02/28] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-05-08 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE855d [PATCH v13 02/27] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-03-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE869d [PATCH v12 02/27] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-02-21 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE766d [PATCH v11 02/26] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-01-24 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE967d [PATCH v3 05/10] iov_iter: Create a function to prepare userspace VM for UBUF/IOVEC tests
  2023-11-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1021d [PATCH v3 05/10] iov_iter: Create a function to prepare userspace VM for UBUF/IOVEC tests
  2023-09-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1023d [RFC PATCH v2 5/9] iov_iter: Create a function to prepare userspace VM for UBUF/IOVEC tests
  2023-09-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1028d [RFC PATCH 5/9] iov_iter: Create a function to prepare userspace VM for UBUF/IOVEC tests
  2023-09-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1053d [RESEND PATCH v10 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-08-21 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1102d [PATCH v10 rebased on v6.4 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-07-03 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1109d [PATCH v10 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-06-26 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1252d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 07/19] blk-cgroup: store a gendisk to throttle in struct task_struct
  2023-02-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1247d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 07/19] blk-cgroup: store a gendisk to throttle in struct task_struct
  2023-02-01 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1254d [PATCH v9 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-31 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1257d [PATCH v8 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-27 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1253d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 05/15] blk-cgroup: store a gendisk to throttle in struct task_struct
  2023-01-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1259d [PATCH 05/15] blk-cgroup: store a gendisk to throttle in struct task_struct
  2023-01-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1265d [PATCH RFC v7 02/23] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-09 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1507d [PATCH RFC v6 02/21] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-05-04 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1572d [PATCH RFC v5 02/21] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-03-16 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1572d [PATCH v4 02/24] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-03-04 · Byungchul Park <hidden>