crypto api · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/crypto/
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/
• F arch/*/crypto/
• F crypto/
• F drivers/crypto/
• F include/crypto/
• F include/linux/crypto*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD42d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD57d [PATCH v5 07/14] module: Make module authentication usable without MODULE_SIG
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 19/19] Add standalone crypto kernel module technical documentation
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 16/19] crypto: convert exported symbols in architecture-independent crypto to pluggable symbols
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 15/19] crypto: fips140: add module integrity self-check
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 14/19] crypto/algapi.c: skip crypto_check_module_sig() for the standalone crypto module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 13/19] Execute crypto initcalls during module initialization
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 12/19] Allow selective crypto module loading at boot based on FIPS mode
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 11/19] build: add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES support for the standalone crypto kernel module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 09/19] build: embed the standalone crypto module into vmlinux
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 08/19] crypto: fips140: add crypto module loader
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 07/19] crypto: dedicated ELF sections for collected crypto initcalls
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 06/19] crypto: add pluggable interface for module symbols referenced by the main kernel
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 04/19] build: Add ELF marker for crypto-objs-m modules
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 03/19] build: special compilation rule for building the standalone crypto module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 02/19] crypto: add module entry for standalone crypto kernel module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 01/19] crypto: add Kconfig options for standalone crypto module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 106/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_TEST crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 105/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_CRYPTO_SIMD crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 104/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_SIGNED_PE_FILE_VERIFICATION crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 103/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_PKCS7_TEST_KEY crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 102/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_PKCS8_PRIVATE_KEY_PARSER crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 101/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_FIPS_SIGNATURE_SELFTEST crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 100/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_CRYPTO_KRB5 crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 099/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_CRYPTO_KDF800108_CTR crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 098/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 097/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_PQ crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 096/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_XOR crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 095/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_MEMCPY crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE161d [PATCH 094/106] crypto: convert exported crypto symbol into pluggable interface for CONFIG_ASYNC_CORE crypto
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <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.

• STALE164d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v16 8/7] pkcs7: Change a pr_warn() to pr_warn_once()
  2026-02-05 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> · 1 Tested-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.

• STALE195d [PATCH v11 1/8] crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
  2026-01-05 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH v12 01/10] crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
  2026-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH v12 03/10] pkcs7: Allow direct signing of data with ML-DSA
  2026-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH v12 04/10] pkcs7, x509: Add ML-DSA support
  2026-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH v12 05/10] modsign: Enable ML-DSA module signing
  2026-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH v12 10/10] x509, pkcs7: Limit crypto combinations that may be used for module signing
  2026-01-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE179d [PATCH v13 03/12] pkcs7: Allow direct signing of data with ML-DSA
  2026-01-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE179d [PATCH v13 08/12] pkcs7, x509: Add RSASSA-PSS support
  2026-01-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE179d [PATCH v13 10/12] pkcs7: Add FIPS selftest for RSASSA-PSS
  2026-01-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v15 4/7] pkcs7: Allow the signing algo to do whatever digestion it wants itself
  2026-01-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>