proc filesystem · Maintained

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• F Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING10d [PATCH v4] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook
  2026-07-20 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COOLING10d [RFC PATCH 15/24] fork: keep embryonic tasks hidden until exec completes
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH v3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-26 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v2 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE94d [PATCH 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE151d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE163d [PATCH v2 067/110] proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE163d [PATCH v2 014/110] proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE168d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE159d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 02/15] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE172d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 02/15] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 01/13] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE263d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE239d [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE216d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests: complete kselftest include centralization
  2025-10-16 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE216d [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>
• STALE216d [PATCH 2/2] selftests: Replace relative includes with non-relative for kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h
  2025-08-27 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE239d [PATCH v17] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE357d [PATCH] selftests: centralise maybe-unused definition in kselftest.h
  2025-08-21 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE369d LANDED [PATCH v3 01/13] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-07-17 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE401d [PATCH v2 01/14] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-05-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE676d [PATCH v9 1/7] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-10-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE672d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 048/139] proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes
  2024-09-25 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE678d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.10 054/197] proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes
  2024-09-25 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE678d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.11 064/244] proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes
  2024-09-25 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE701d [PATCH v8 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE685d [PATCH v7 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-17 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE731d [PATCH v6 1/9] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-12 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE743d LANDED [PATCH v5] proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes
  2024-08-02 · Adrian Ratiu <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.

• STALE168d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>