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-doc (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE206d [PATCH] kfence: add kfence.fault parameter
  2026-02-25 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE241d [PATCH v5 28/36] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE280d [PATCH v4 27/35] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE315d [PATCH v3 27/35] kfence: Enable capability analysis
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE609d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] KFENCE: Clarify that sample allocations are not following NUMA or memory policies
  2025-01-24 · Christoph Lameter via B4 Relay <devnull+cl.gentwo.org@kernel.org>
• STALE609d [PATCH] KFENCE: Clarify that sample allocations are not following NUMA or memory policies
  2025-01-23 · Christoph Lameter via B4 Relay <devnull+cl.gentwo.org@kernel.org>
• STALE779d [PATCH] kfence: introduce burst mode
  2024-08-05 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE883d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v6 06/37] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2024-03-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE924d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 06/37] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2024-03-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE927d [PATCH v4 07/36] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2024-02-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE939d [PATCH v3 05/35] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE976d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: Replace deprecated 'functions' by 'identifiers'
  2024-01-22 · Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
• STALE1061d [PATCH v2 07/39] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1236d [PATCH 08/40] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2023-05-01 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1340d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 4/6] panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
  2022-11-17 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1408d [PATCH v2 4/6] panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
  2022-11-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1517d [RFC PATCH] mm/kfence: Introduce kernel parameter for selective usage of kfence.
  2022-07-27 · Imran Khan <hidden>
• STALE1506d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/21] kfence: fix a kernel-doc parameter
  2022-07-09 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
• STALE1542d [PATCH 14/22] kfence: fix a kernel-doc parameter
  2022-06-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
• STALE1662d [PATCH v2] kfence: allow use of a deferrable timer
  2022-03-08 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1691d [PATCH v3] kfence: Make test case compatible with run time set sample interval
  2022-02-07 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1700d [PATCH 5/5] kfence: unset panic_on_warn before calling panic()
  2022-01-28 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• STALE1692d [PATCH v2] kfence: Make test case compatible with run time set sample interval
  2022-01-28 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1703d [PATCH RFC 3/3] kfence: Make test case compatible with run time set sample interval
  2022-01-24 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1703d [PATCH RFC 2/3] kfence: Optimize branches prediction when sample interval is zero
  2022-01-24 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1703d [PATCH RFC 1/3] kfence: Add a module parameter to adjust kfence objects
  2022-01-24 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH mm v3] kfence: show cpu and timestamp in alloc/free info
  2021-07-14 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH mm v2] kfence: show cpu and timestamp in alloc/free info
  2021-07-14 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1900d [PATCH] kfence: show cpu and timestamp in alloc/free info
  2021-06-29 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2151d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 4/9] mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB
  2020-11-03 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>