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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v16 00/18] arm64: entry: Convert to Generic Entry
  2026-06-29 13:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 0/6] seccomp: non-cooperative pinned-memfd argument redirect
  2026-06-27 01:23 · 4 replies in 7d · Cong Wang <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-29

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v16 01/18] seccomp: Convert __secure_computing() to return boolean
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 6/6] docs/seccomp: document pinned-memfd redirect ioctls
  2026-06-27 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/6] seccomp: add kernel-installed pinned-memfd redirect
  2026-06-27 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 2/6] seccomp: introduce SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_PIN_INSTALL
  2026-06-27 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 4/6] seccomp: re-validate a redirected syscall against outer filters
  2026-06-27 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• STALE105d [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>
• STALE219d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE172d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests: complete kselftest include centralization
  2025-10-16 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests: Replace relative includes with non-relative for kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h
  2025-08-30 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH 2/2] selftests: Replace relative includes with non-relative for kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h
  2025-08-27 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v17] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v16] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE519d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE516d [PATCH 05/16] selftests/mm: kselftest_harness: Fix warnings
  2025-01-09 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• STALE537d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE783d [PATCH v2 1/5] selftests: Compile kselftest headers with -D_GNU_SOURCE
  2024-05-07 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE780d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE810d [PATCH] selftests/harness: remove use of LINE_MAX
  2024-04-11 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE838d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE195d Re: [PATCH v14] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2024-01-23 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v14] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2024-01-15 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE845d [PATCH 40/50] seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h
  2023-12-16 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE845d [PATCH 22/50] pid: Split out pid_types.h
  2023-12-16 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE195d [PATCH v12] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2023-10-30 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE1104d [PATCH 08/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl_init
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1356d Re: hmm_test issues with latest mainline
  2022-10-14 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE1661d [PATCH 01/12] tools: fix ARRAY_SIZE defines in tools and selftests hdrs
  2021-12-10 · Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE2218d [PATCH RFC] seccomp: Implement syscall isolation based on memory areas
  2020-05-30 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <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>