crypto api · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/crypto/
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/
• F arch/*/crypto/
• F crypto/
• F drivers/crypto/
• F include/crypto/
• F include/linux/crypto*

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH v3 13/13] lib/crypto: Add documentation about zeroization of key and context data
  2026-09-10 12:42 · 0 replies in 7d · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 13/13] lib/crypto: Add documentation about zeroization of key and context data
  2026-09-09 11:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Thomas Huth <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
  16 attestations (16 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-25

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH v3 13/13] lib/crypto: Add documentation about zeroization of key and context data
  2026-09-10 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 13/13] lib/crypto: Add documentation about zeroization of key and context data
  2026-09-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 06/13] ARM: omap2: remove omap24xx support
  2026-09-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 03/19] crypto: cmh - add key provisioning and management
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 13/19] crypto: cmh - add ECDSA/SM2 sig
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 15/19] crypto: cmh - add ML-KEM/ML-DSA (QSE)
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 09/19] crypto: cmh - add SM4 skcipher/aead/cmac/xcbc
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 12/19] crypto: cmh - add RSA akcipher
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 16/19] crypto: cmh - add SLH-DSA/LMS/XMSS (HCQ)
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 01/19] dt-bindings: crypto: add Rambus CryptoManager Hub
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 07/19] crypto: cmh - add SM3 ahash
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 08/19] crypto: cmh - add AES skcipher/aead/cmac
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 14/19] crypto: cmh - add ECDH/X25519 kpp
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 10/19] crypto: cmh - add ChaCha20-Poly1305
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 11/19] crypto: cmh - add DRBG hwrng
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 04/19] crypto: cmh - add SHA-2/SHA-3/SHAKE ahash
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 05/19] crypto: cmh - add HMAC ahash
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 06/19] crypto: cmh - add CSHAKE/KMAC ahash
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 12/13] crypto: api - wipe tfm contexts before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 09/13] security/keys: implement wipe op for asymmetric keys
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 06/13] security/keys: implement wipe op for user-type keys
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 15/19] crypto: cmh - add ML-KEM/ML-DSA (QSE)
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 04/19] crypto: cmh - add SHA-2/SHA-3/SHAKE ahash
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 14/19] crypto: cmh - add ECDH/X25519 kpp
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 16/19] crypto: cmh - add SLH-DSA/LMS/XMSS (HCQ)
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 07/19] crypto: cmh - add SM3 ahash
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 10/19] crypto: cmh - add ChaCha20-Poly1305
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 12/19] crypto: cmh - add RSA akcipher
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 09/19] crypto: cmh - add SM4 skcipher/aead/cmac/xcbc
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>

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.

• STALE188d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v12 09/12] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-03-10 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE176d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v13 09/12] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-03-17 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v14 09/12] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-03-23 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE166d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v15 09/12] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-04-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE127d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v16 09/12] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-04-27 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v17 08/14] crypto: qce - Include algapi.h in the core.h header
  2026-05-19 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v17 09/14] crypto: qce - Remove unused ignore_buf
  2026-05-19 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v17 10/14] crypto: qce - Simplify arguments of devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-05-19 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 23 (22M) [PATCH v17 11/14] crypto: qce - Use existing devres APIs in devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-05-19 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v17 12/14] crypto: qce - Map crypto memory for DMA
  2026-05-19 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 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.

• STALE180d [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: pkcs7: add flag for validated trust on a signed info block
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 03/10] crypto: pkcs7: allow pkcs7_digest() to be called from pkcs7_trust
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto: pkcs7: add ability to extract signed attributes by OID
  2026-02-27 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH RFC v11 01/12] crypto: qce - Include algapi.h in the core.h header
  2026-03-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH RFC v11 02/12] crypto: qce - Remove unused ignore_buf
  2026-03-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH RFC v11 03/12] crypto: qce - Simplify arguments of devm_qce_dma_request()
  2026-03-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH RFC v11 05/12] crypto: qce - Map crypto memory for DMA
  2026-03-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH RFC v11 06/12] crypto: qce - Add BAM DMA support for crypto register I/O
  2026-03-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE188d [PATCH v12 06/12] crypto: qce - Include algapi.h in the core.h header
  2026-03-10 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE188d [PATCH v12 07/12] crypto: qce - Remove unused ignore_buf
  2026-03-10 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>