pidfd api · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>

Paths

• F samples/pidfd/
• F tools/testing/selftests/clone3/
• F tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 00/24] pidfd: add a minimal process spawn builder
  2026-07-16 14:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Li Chen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] pidfs: preserve thread pidfds reopened by file handle
  2026-07-16 05:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Li Chen <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 23/24] selftests/pidfd: cover pidfd spawn builders
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] pidfs: preserve thread pidfds reopened by file handle
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/clone3: Fix wild pointer access of getline due to missing init
  2026-06-03 · Chris Gellermann <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH] selftest: Fix UB of getline due to missing var init
  2026-05-26 · Chris Gellermann <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/clone3: remove unused variables
  2026-05-24 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 1/2] selftests/clone3: fix libcap interface usage
  2026-05-24 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH 11/15] selftests/clone3: remove unused variables in clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore
  2026-04-29 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• STALE71d [PATCH] selftests/clone3: Fix capability dropping by using standard libcap API
  2026-03-10 · Yi Lai <hidden>
• STALE176d LANDED [PATCH v2] selftests/pidfd: fix typo in comment
  2026-01-21 · Ziyu Chen <hidden>
• STALE176d [PATCH] selftests/pidfd: Fix comment typo already covered by spelling.txt
  2026-01-21 · Ziyu Chen <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH 3/3] selftests/clone3: Add sys_clone3 wrapper for SPARC
  2026-01-16 · Ludwig Rydberg <hidden>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v23 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support
  2025-12-18 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v23 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code
  2025-12-18 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v23 6/8] selftests/clone3: Factor more of main loop into test_clone3()
  2025-12-18 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v23 5/8] selftests/clone3: Remove redundant flushes of output streams
  2025-12-18 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE218d [PATCH v2 01/13] clone3: clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore: Fix build warnings
  2025-12-05 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE224d [PATCH 01/13] clone3: clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore: Fix build errors seen with -Werror
  2025-12-04 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE187d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests: complete kselftest include centralization
  2025-10-16 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v22 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support
  2025-10-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE274d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v22 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code
  2025-10-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE274d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v22 6/8] selftests/clone3: Factor more of main loop into test_clone3()
  2025-10-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE274d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v22 5/8] selftests/clone3: Remove redundant flushes of output streams
  2025-10-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH][next] selftests/clone3: Fix spelling mistake "supportd" -> "supported"
  2025-09-22 · Colin Ian King <hidden>
• STALE300d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v21 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support
  2025-09-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE300d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v21 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code
  2025-09-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE300d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v21 6/8] selftests/clone3: Factor more of main loop into test_clone3()
  2025-09-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE300d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v21 5/8] selftests/clone3: Remove redundant flushes of output streams
  2025-09-15 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE317d [PATCH v2 1/7] selftests/pidfd: Add architecture-specific fallback definitions for pidfd_open
  2025-09-02 · Aqib Faruqui <hidden>
• STALE304d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v20 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support
  2025-09-02 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE304d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v20 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code
  2025-09-02 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE177d [PATCH 3/3] selftests/clone3: Add sys_clone3 wrapper for SPARC
  2026-01-16 · Ludwig Rydberg <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH 11/15] selftests/clone3: remove unused variables in clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore
  2026-04-29 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 1/2] selftests/clone3: fix libcap interface usage
  2026-05-24 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/clone3: remove unused variables
  2026-05-24 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>