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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/13] libcrypto: Provide more __cleanup functions for zeroizing data
  2026-09-09 11:56 · 1 reply in 7d · Thomas Huth <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-25

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 13/13] lib/crypto: Add documentation about zeroization of key and context data
  2026-09-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v4 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v4 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v2 05/13] security/keys: wipe key payloads before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15,5.10] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-07-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-07-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 07/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add CCM support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 05/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add XTS support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 06/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add GCM support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 02/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add ECB support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 03/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add CBC and CBC-CTS support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 04/13] lib/crypto: aes: Add CTR and XCTR support
  2026-07-15 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH 2/2] padata: Remove serialized job support
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH] crypto: pcrypt - Remove pcrypt
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH] crypto: fix bracket
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Improve introduction sentence
  2026-07-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH] lib/crypto: docs: Fix some sentence fragments
  2026-07-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 05/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add XTS support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 06/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add GCM support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 07/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add CCM support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 02/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add ECB support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 03/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add CBC and CBC-CTS support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD56d [PATCH 04/33] lib/crypto: aes: Add CTR and XCTR support
  2026-07-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE73d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-06-25 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• STALE73d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-06-25 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl, defaulting to 1
  2026-06-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from AF_ALG
  2026-05-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-05-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE120d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-06 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-07-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15,5.10] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-07-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 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.

• STALE168d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE159d [PATCH 3/5] ARM: Add a neon-intrinsics.h header like on arm64
  2026-03-30 · Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
• STALE162d [PATCH v2 1/5] ARM: Add a neon-intrinsics.h header like on arm64
  2026-03-31 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH v3 6/6] docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
  2026-04-01 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE145d [PATCH 2/2] lib/crypto: docs: Add rst documentation to Documentation/crypto/
  2026-04-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE104d [PATCH 1/8] ARM: Add a neon-intrinsics.h header like on arm64
  2026-04-22 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE75d [PATCH 08/19] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE118d [PATCH net v3 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE112d [PATCH net v4 1/3] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE107d [PATCH 1/5] lib/crypto: mlkem: Add ML-KEM-768 and ML-KEM-1024 support
  2026-05-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>