kfence · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• M Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• R Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
• F arch/*/include/asm/kfence.h
• F include/linux/kfence.h
• F lib/Kconfig.kfence
• F mm/kfence/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 20 patches in this subsystem on linux-media, ordered by date desc.

• COLD28d [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE202d REVIEWED: 21 (20M) [PATCH mm-hotfixes 4/4] mm, kfence: Describe @slab parameter in __kfence_obj_info()
  2025-12-19 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH 05/14] mm, kfence: Describe @slab parameter in __kfence_obj_info()
  2025-12-15 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1329d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1329d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1329d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1329d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1331d [PATCH v1 5/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1331d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1427d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/21] kfence: fix a kernel-doc parameter
  2022-07-09 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
• STALE1463d [PATCH 14/22] kfence: fix a kernel-doc parameter
  2022-06-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/7] kfence: Extend kfences for listening on DMA fences
  2016-07-17 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH v2 2/7] kfence: Wrap hrtimer to provide a time source for a kfence
  2016-07-17 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH v2 1/7] kfence: Introduce kfence, a N:M completion mechanism
  2016-07-17 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH 2/9] async: Introduce kfence, a N:M completion mechanism
  2016-06-24 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH 3/9] async: Extend kfence to allow struct embedding
  2016-06-24 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH 4/9] async: Extend kfences for listening on DMA fences
  2016-06-24 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH 5/9] async: Wrap hrtimer to provide a time source for a kfence
  2016-06-24 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3643d [PATCH 6/9] async: Add a convenience wrapper for waiting on implicit dma-buf
  2016-06-24 · Chris Wilson <hidden>