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 9 patches in this subsystem on llvm, ordered by date desc.

• COLD56d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/3] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-05-11 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/2] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-04-24 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE83d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-04-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE96d [PATCH v1] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-03-31 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 28/36] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE207d [PATCH v4 27/35] kfence: Enable context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE242d [PATCH v3 27/35] kfence: Enable capability analysis
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE342d [PATCH v2 26/34] kfence: Enable capability analysis
  2025-03-04 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE503d [PATCH RFC 21/24] kfence: Enable capability analysis
  2025-02-06 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE83d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-04-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/2] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-04-24 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com> · 1 Acked-by
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/3] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  2026-05-11 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com> · 1 Acked-by