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 21 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev, ordered by date desc.

• STALE88d [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE88d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE161d [PATCH v2 8/9] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE172d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE663d [PATCH v3] mm/kfence: Add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  2024-10-18 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• STALE692d [RFC RESEND v2 01/13] mm/kfence: Add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  2024-10-15 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• STALE704d [RFC v2 01/13] mm/kfence: Add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  2024-09-19 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• STALE1207d Re: [PATCH] mm: kfence: Fix false positives on big endian
  2023-05-19 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE1207d [PATCH] mm: kfence: Fix false positives on big endian
  2023-05-05 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE1389d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1389d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1389d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v2 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1389d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1391d [PATCH v1 5/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1391d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-05 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-05 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-05 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-04 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-03 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE2012d Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32
  2021-03-02 · Christophe Leroy <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.

• STALE172d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE161d [PATCH v2 8/9] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>