secure computing · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• R Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
• R Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst
• F include/linux/seccomp.h
• F include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
• F kernel/seccomp.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/
• F tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/*

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-29

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on linux-um, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING6d [PATCH v16 01/18] seccomp: Convert __secure_computing() to return boolean
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE2469d LANDED [PATCH v1] seccomp: simplify secure_computing()
  2019-09-24 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2469d [PATCH] seccomp: remove unused arg from secure_computing()
  2019-09-20 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2658d [PATCH 5/6 v3] syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args
  2019-04-01 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2664d [RFC][PATCH 3/4 v2] syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args
  2019-03-29 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2673d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v2 13/13] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-03-17 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2688d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 14/14] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-01-09 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2693d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 20/22] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-01-07 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2763d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 24/27] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-12-13 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2664d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 22/25] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-12-10 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2781d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 16/15 v2] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-11-21 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2781d [PATCH v2 16/15] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-11-21 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE3683d [PATCH 02/14] seccomp: Add a seccomp_data parameter secure_computing()
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3683d [PATCH 04/14] seccomp: remove 2-phase API
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3683d [PATCH 05/14] seccomp: recheck the syscall after RET_TRACE
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE4514d [PATCH 5/6][RFC] audit: drop args from syscall_get_arch() interface
  2014-03-05 · Richard Guy Briggs <hidden>