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Most-recent 9 patches in this subsystem on linux-hardening, ordered by date desc.

DORMANTno replies [RFC v4 3/3] Selfpatch-SLR target annotations
2026-10-25 · York Jasper Niebuhr <hidden>
COLD49d Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Bootpatch-SLR: Randomizing Linux Kernel Structure Layouts at Boot
2026-09-03 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] cred: prevent slab cache merging for cred_jar
2026-06-11 · Mohammed EL Kadiri <hidden>
STALE141d [PATCH] cred: prevent slab cache merging for cred_jar
2026-06-06 · Mohammed EL Kadiri <hidden>
STALE336d [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] cred: Protect live struct cred with kpkeys
2025-08-15 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
STALE625d SUPERSEDED [RFC PATCH 6/8] cred: Protect live struct cred with kpkeys
2025-02-03 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
STALE1165d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2] creds: Convert cred.usage to refcount_t
2023-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
DORMANTno replies LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2] groups: Convert group_info.usage to refcount_t
2023-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
STALE1463d LANDED [PATCH] cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred()
2022-10-26 · Kees Cook <hidden>

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] cred: prevent slab cache merging for cred_jar
2026-06-11 · Mohammed EL Kadiri <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.