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 30 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v16 01/18] seccomp: Convert __secure_computing() to return boolean
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE514d LANDED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2 4/4] seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
  2025-01-28 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE514d LANDED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2 3/4] seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
  2025-01-28 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE514d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/4] seccomp: fix the __secure_computing() stub for !HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
  2025-01-28 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE514d [PATCH v2 0/4] seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
  2025-01-28 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE528d [PATCH 4/4] seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
  2025-01-20 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE528d [PATCH 3/4] seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
  2025-01-20 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE528d [PATCH 2/4] seccomp: kill the dead code in the !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER version of __secure_computing()
  2025-01-20 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE526d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE545d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE787d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE845d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE1112d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE2060d LANDED [PATCH seccomp v2 8/8] seccomp/cache: Report cache data through /proc/pid/seccomp_cache
  2020-11-11 · YiFei Zhu <hidden>
• STALE2068d [PATCH seccomp 8/8] seccomp/cache: Report cache data through /proc/pid/seccomp_cache
  2020-11-03 · YiFei Zhu <hidden>
• STALE2120d Re: [PATCH 00/15] selftests/seccomp: Refactor change_syscall()
  2020-09-15 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE2652d [PATCH 5/6 v3] syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args
  2019-04-01 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2658d [RFC][PATCH 3/4 v2] syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args
  2019-03-29 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2667d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v2 13/13] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-03-17 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2682d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 14/14] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-01-09 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2688d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 20/22] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2019-01-07 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2757d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 24/27] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-12-13 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2658d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 22/25] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-12-10 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2775d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 16/15 v2] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-11-21 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2775d [PATCH v2 16/15] syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  2018-11-21 · Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
• STALE2809d [RFC PATCH] seccomp: Add protection keys into seccomp_data
  2018-10-29 · Michael Sammler <hidden>
• STALE3677d [PATCH 02/14] seccomp: Add a seccomp_data parameter secure_computing()
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3677d [PATCH 04/14] seccomp: remove 2-phase API
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3677d [PATCH 05/14] seccomp: recheck the syscall after RET_TRACE
  2016-06-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE4508d [PATCH 5/6][RFC] audit: drop args from syscall_get_arch() interface
  2014-03-05 · Richard Guy Briggs <hidden>