secure computing · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• R Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
• R Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst
• F include/linux/seccomp.h
• F include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
• F kernel/seccomp.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/
• F tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD39d [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: af_unix: Useful handling of LSM denials on SCM_RIGHTS
  2026-04-28 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE228d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v17] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE528d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE547d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE793d [PATCH v2 1/5] selftests: Compile kselftest headers with -D_GNU_SOURCE
  2024-05-07 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE789d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE808d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 05/10] seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2024-03-28 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE847d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE204d Re: [PATCH v14] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2024-01-23 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v15] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2024-01-22 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v14] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2024-01-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE919d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 05/10] seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2024-01-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE855d [PATCH 40/50] seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h
  2023-12-16 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE855d [PATCH 22/50] pid: Split out pid_types.h
  2023-12-16 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE930d [PATCH v2 12/18] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2023-12-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE930d [PATCH v2 05/18] seccomp: constify ctl_table arguments of utility functions
  2023-12-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE953d LANDED [PATCH RFC 5/5] file: remove __receive_fd()
  2023-11-30 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE950d [PATCH RFC 5/7] treewide: sysctl: migrate proc_dostring to proc_handler_new
  2023-11-25 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE948d [PATCH 05/10] seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE204d [PATCH v13] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2023-11-06 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v12] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2023-10-30 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE1114d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1114d [PATCH 08/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl_init
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1142d [RFC v7 2/2] seccomp: replace existing file in the epoll interface by a new file injected by the syscall supervisor.
  2023-05-24 · aloktiagi <hidden>
• STALE1144d [RFC v6 2/2] seccomp: replace existing file in the epoll interface by a new file injected by the syscall supervisor.
  2023-05-23 · aloktiagi <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>