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 6 patches in this subsystem on linux-security-module, ordered by date desc.

• WARM3d [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE129d [PATCH v5 28/36] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE167d [PATCH v4 27/35] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE203d [PATCH v3 27/35] kfence: Enable capability analysis
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1137d [PATCH RFC] Randomized slab caches for kmalloc()
  2023-03-15 · GONG, Ruiqi <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.

• STALE167d [PATCH v4 27/35] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>