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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-07-06 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v2] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-07-06 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests/harness: Check mmap return value in test_harness_run
  2026-07-06 · longlong yan <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-06-30 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH kselftest] selftests: harness: Add __maybe_unused to _##fixture_name##_##test_name##_object.
  2026-05-30 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD56d [PATCH RESEND 1/2] seccomp: Allow using `SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT` with `SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER`
  2026-05-26 · Jamie Hill-Daniel <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests/harness: harness-selftest: cover XFAIL_ADD ctor ordering
  2026-04-30 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE106d LANDED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2] selftests: harness: Restore order of test functions
  2026-04-22 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v2] selftests: harness: fix pidfd leak in __wait_for_test
  2026-04-20 · Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH] selftests: harness: Restore order of test functions
  2026-04-20 · Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH] selftests: harness: fix pidfd leak in __wait_for_test
  2026-04-20 · Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
• STALE83d [PATCH RFC 2/4] selftests: harness: Set global current_test_metadata for each test run
  2026-04-14 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH RFC 1/4] selftests: harness: Move metadata structs to separate header file
  2026-04-14 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v2] selftests/harness: harness-selftest: cover XFAIL_ADD ctor ordering
  2026-03-09 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH] selftests/harness: harness-selftest: cover XFAIL_ADD ctor ordering
  2026-03-09 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH 1/2] seccomp: Allow using `SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT` with `SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER`
  2026-03-02 · Jamie Hill-Daniel <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [PATCH v2 5/5] selftests: harness: Validate intermixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [PATCH v2 4/5] selftests: harness: Detect illegal mixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests: harness: Validate that explicit kselftest exitcodes are handled
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH v3 v3 1/2] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-02-25 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-02-24 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH 1/2] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-02-24 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH 1/2] selftests/harness: fix XFAIL_ADD matching when test metadata is not initialized
  2026-02-22 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH 4/5] selftests: harness: Detect illegal mixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-01-28 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH 5/5] selftests: harness: Validate intermixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-01-28 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH 2/5] selftests: harness: Validate that explicit kselftest exitcodes are handled
  2026-01-28 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests: harness: fix again 32-bit build warnings in __EXPECT()
  2026-01-13 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE223d LANDED [PATCH] kselftest/harness: Use helper to avoid zero-size memset warning
  2025-12-24 · Wake Liu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE259d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests/harness: harness-selftest: cover XFAIL_ADD ctor ordering
  2026-04-30 · Sun Jian <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-07-06 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> · 2 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE194d [PATCH 2/5] selftests: harness: Validate that explicit kselftest exitcodes are handled
  2026-01-28 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH 5/5] selftests: harness: Validate intermixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-01-28 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests: harness: Validate that explicit kselftest exitcodes are handled
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [PATCH v2 5/5] selftests: harness: Validate intermixing of kselftest and harness functionality
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH 1/2] seccomp: Allow using `SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT` with `SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER`
  2026-03-02 · Jamie Hill-Daniel <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH RFC 1/4] selftests: harness: Move metadata structs to separate header file
  2026-04-14 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH RFC 2/4] selftests: harness: Set global current_test_metadata for each test run
  2026-04-14 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests/harness: Check mmap return value in test_harness_run
  2026-07-06 · longlong yan <hidden>