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

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-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v18 01/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE175d [PATCH 30/44] fs: use min() or umin() instead of min_t()
  2025-11-19 · <hidden>
• STALE225d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v17 02/47] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE354d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v16 02/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-19 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE424d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v15 02/43] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-13 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE596d [PATCH v14 02/28] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-05-08 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE860d [PATCH v13 02/27] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-03-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE874d [PATCH v12 02/27] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-02-21 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE770d [PATCH v11 02/26] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2024-01-24 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1058d [RESEND PATCH v10 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-08-21 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1107d [PATCH v10 rebased on v6.4 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-07-03 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1113d [PATCH v10 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-06-26 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE1259d [PATCH v9 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-31 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1262d [PATCH v8 02/25] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-27 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1258d [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: replace VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK with VM_LOCKED_MASK
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1258d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1270d [PATCH RFC v7 02/23] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2023-01-09 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1512d [PATCH RFC v6 02/21] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-05-04 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1573d [v2 PATCH 5/8] mm: khugepaged: make khugepaged_enter() void function
  2022-03-17 · Yang Shi <hidden>
• STALE1577d [PATCH RFC v5 02/21] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-03-16 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1577d [PATCH v4 02/24] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-03-04 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1594d [PATCH 5/8] mm: khugepaged: make khugepaged_enter() void function
  2022-02-28 · Yang Shi <hidden>
• STALE1593d [PATCH v3 02/21] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-02-28 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1603d [PATCH v2 02/18] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-02-19 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1587d [PATCH 02/16] dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker)
  2022-02-17 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE1947d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 05/39] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1947d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 04/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1947d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 23/40] exec: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1947d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 22/40] would_dump: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>