exec & binfmt api, elf · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/userspace-api/ELF.rst
• F fs/*binfmt_*.c
• F fs/Kconfig.binfmt
• F fs/exec.c
• F fs/tests/binfmt_*_kunit.c
• F fs/tests/exec_kunit.c
• F include/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/linux/elf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h
• F include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/uapi/linux/elf.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F mm/vma_exec.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/exec/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-s390 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• [PATCH v6 4/6] mm/vma: use vma_start_write_killable() in vma operations
  2026-03-27 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v5 4/6] mm/vma: use vma_start_write_killable() in vma operations
  2026-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable()
  2026-03-22 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v4 17/25] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 17/23] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-18 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 17/23] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-16 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 13/20] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v5 2/2] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches
  2026-03-03 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v5 1/2] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
  2026-03-03 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable()
  2026-02-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable()
  2026-02-17 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v4 3/3] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches
  2026-01-19 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v4 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
  2026-01-19 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v3 3/3] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches
  2026-01-02 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v3 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
  2026-01-02 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v2 3/3] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches
  2025-12-15 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
  2025-12-15 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/4] copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 09/10] mm: convert remaining users to mm_flags_*() accessors
  2025-08-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH 08/10] mm: update fork mm->flags initialisation to use bitmap
  2025-08-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH 06/10] mm: update coredump logic to correctly use bitmap mm flags
  2025-08-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 01/24] elf, uapi: Add a header for relocation constants
  2025-08-12 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 01/13] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-07-17 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 01/14] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-05-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v5 1/6] elf: Define note name macros
  2025-01-15 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 1/6] elf: Define note name macros
  2025-01-11 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC v2 25/29] mm: asi: Restricted execution fore bare-metal processes
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• [PATCH RFC v2 03/29] mm: asi: Introduce ASI core API
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@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.

• [PATCH v2 1/3] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
  2025-12-15 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• [PATCH 13/20] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>