ptrace support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Paths

• F arch/*/*/ptrace*.c
• F arch/*/include/asm/ptrace*.h
• F arch/*/ptrace*.c
• F include/asm-generic/syscall.h
• F include/linux/ptrace.h
• F include/linux/regset.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
• F kernel/ptrace.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 15 patches in this subsystem on linux-security-module, ordered by date desc.

• [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-23 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• [PATCH v18] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-11-18 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH v17] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-08-21 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH] kernel: Introduce a write lock/unlock wrapper for tasklist_lock
  2023-12-25 · Maria Yu <hidden>
• [PATCH] kernel: Introduce a write lock/unlock wrapper for tasklist_lock
  2023-12-13 · Maria Yu <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 20/20] mm: rename FOLL_FORCE to FOLL_PTRACE
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH bpf-next seccomp 03/12] seccomp, ptrace: Add a mechanism to retrieve attached eBPF seccomp filters
  2021-05-10 · YiFei Zhu <hidden>
• [PATCHv3] exec: Fix a deadlock in ptrace
  2020-03-02 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 21/25] ptrace: adapt ptrace_may_access() to always uses unmapped fsids
  2020-02-18 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 27/28] ptrace: adapt ptrace_may_access() to always uses unmapped fsids
  2020-02-14 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 4/5] Capability: Complete PTRACE_MODE_SCHED
  2018-11-05 · Casey Schaufler <hidden>
• Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in task_is_descendant
  2018-10-25 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
• [PATCH v5 4/5] Capability: Complete PTRACE_MODE_SCHED
  2018-09-26 · Casey Schaufler <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.

• [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>