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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-fscrypt touching this subsystem.

• ext4: support encryption with block size larger than page size v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/4] fscrypt: Cap data units at the page size 2026-11-03
  2026-11-03 · Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
• block, ext4: allow encryption with a block size larger than the page size v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 13 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 10/13] block: don't require data unit aligned bio_vecs for encrypted bios 2026-10-11
  2026-10-11 · Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
• CRASH_WIPE_SECRETS: Wipe secrets before kdump (was: CRASH_ZEROIZE) v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 05/13] security/keys: wipe key payloads before kdump 2026-08-11
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• LANDED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v2] mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files 2026-08-03 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files 2026-07-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• More fscrypt and blk-crypto doc updates and code removals v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 4/6] fscrypt: Update docs for data path 2026-07-18
  • [PATCH 5/6] blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported() 2026-07-18
  • [PATCH 6/6] blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation 2026-07-18
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH] fscrypt: Update encryption policy version docs 2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Backport object allocation APIs and two fscrypt fixes v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 7 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 6.12 1/7] slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family 2026-07-17
  • [PATCH 6.12 2/7] slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family 2026-07-17
  2026-07-17 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• fscrypt: Standardize on blk-crypto v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 04/17] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE 2026-07-13
  • [PATCH v3 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt 2026-07-13
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• fscrypt: Standardize on blk-crypto v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 04/17] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE 2026-07-05
  • [PATCH v2 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt 2026-07-05
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• fscrypt: Standardize on blk-crypto v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 04/16] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE 2026-06-24
  • [PATCH 05/16] fscrypt: Always use blk-crypto for contents on block-based filesystems 2026-06-24
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• btrfs: add fscrypt support v7 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 43 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v7 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption 2026-05-13
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• btrfs: add fscrypt support v6 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption 2026-02-06
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer 2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer 2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer 2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer 2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH] docs: fscrypt: document EFAULT return for FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY 2025-10-10 · Divya Bharathi <hidden>
• LANDED [PATCH v3] fscrypt: Don't use problematic non-inline crypto engines 2025-07-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH] fscrypt: drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized SHA-512 2025-06-19 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH v13] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2025-04-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] docs: Remove literal markup from Documentation/ paths 2025-04-04 · Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <hidden>
• LANDED [PATCH] fscrypt: mention init_on_free instead of page poisoning 2025-03-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH] fscrypt: drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized ChaCha20 2025-03-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Driver and fscrypt support for HW-wrapped inline encryption keys v12 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 4 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v12 4/4] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2025-02-10
  2025-02-10 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys v11 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 7 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v11 1/7] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support 2025-02-04
  • [PATCH v11 3/7] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys 2025-02-04
  • [PATCH v11 4/7] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2025-02-04
  2025-02-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys v10 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED · 7 of 15 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v10 10/15] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support 2024-12-13
  • [PATCH v10 12/15] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys 2024-12-13
  • [PATCH v10 13/15] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2024-12-13
  2024-12-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys v9 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v9 07/12] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support 2024-12-09
  • [PATCH v9 09/12] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys 2024-12-09
  • [PATCH v9 10/12] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2024-12-09
  2024-12-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• Hardware wrapped key support for QCom ICE and UFS core v7 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 13 of 17 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v7 01/17] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support 2024-10-11
  • [PATCH v7 03/17] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys 2024-10-11
  • [PATCH v7 04/17] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2024-10-11
  2024-12-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• Hardware wrapped key support for QCom ICE and UFS core v6 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 01/17] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support 2024-09-06
  • [PATCH v6 03/17] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys 2024-09-06
  • [PATCH v6 04/17] fscrypt: add support for hardware-wrapped keys 2024-09-06
  2024-09-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>