certificate handling · Maintained

Maintainers

• M David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• M David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
• F certs/
• F scripts/sign-file.c
• F scripts/ssl-common.h
• F tools/certs/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 26 patches in this subsystem on linux-doc, ordered by date desc.

• COLD43d [PATCH v7 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-05-07 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• COLD48d [v6 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-29 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH v5 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-20 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH v4 01/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-04-16 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH v3 1/9] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE99d [PATCH v2 01/10] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE189d [RFC 03/11] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE382d [PATCH RFC 1/1] module: Make use of platform keyring for module signature verify
  2025-06-02 · Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
• STALE975d [PATCH] docs: module-signing: adjust guide after sha1 and sha224 support is gone
  2023-10-25 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE973d [PATCH 6/6] Documentation/module-signing.txt: bring up to date
  2023-10-22 · Dimitri John Ledkov <hidden>
• STALE1129d [PATCH] Documentation: module-signing: Mention default_x509.genkey template
  2023-05-11 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1281d [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: do not print extra logs for V=2
  2022-12-22 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] certs: Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst and root .gitignore
  2021-06-21 · Ian Fleming <hidden>
• STALE1871d Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII
  2021-05-10 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE1871d [PATCH 06/53] docs: admin-guide: avoid using UTF-8 chars
  2021-05-10 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE1906d [PATCH v2 2/2] init/Kconfig: support sign module with SM2-with-SM3 algorithm
  2021-03-24 · Tianjia Zhang <hidden>
• STALE1920d [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Support sign module with SM3 hash algorithm
  2021-03-23 · Tianjia Zhang <hidden>
• STALE2494d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v12 02/11] PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature()
  2019-06-28 · Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
• STALE2558d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v11 02/13] PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature()
  2019-06-11 · Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
• STALE2585d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v10 02/12] PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature()
  2019-04-18 · Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
• STALE2752d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v9 02/14] PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() and add pkcs7_get_message_sig()
  2018-12-13 · Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
• STALE2760d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 02/14] PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() and add pkcs7_get_message_sig()
  2018-11-16 · Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
• STALE2880d REVIEWED: 19 (16M) [PATCH v4 05/26] docs: Fix some broken references
  2018-06-15 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2915d REVIEWED: 18 (16M) [PATCH v3 05/27] docs: Fix some broken references
  2018-06-14 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2964d Re: [PATCH 05/18] docs: core-api: add cachetlb documentation
  2018-05-08 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] certificate handling: Update references to the documentation
  2018-05-07 · Andrea Parri <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.

• STALE189d [RFC 03/11] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2025-12-11 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE99d [PATCH v2 01/10] certs: break out pkcs7 check into its own function
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH v3 1/9] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>