crypto api · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/crypto/
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/
• F arch/*/crypto/
• F crypto/
• F drivers/crypto/
• F include/crypto/
• F include/linux/crypto*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on netdev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD15d [RFC PATCH v1] PCI: Remove pcie_flr() and convert all callers to use pcie_reset_flr()
  2026-06-15 · Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 6/6] crypto: algif_skcipher - use sock_kzalloc in accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 5/6] crypto: algif_rng - use sock_kzalloc in rng_accept_parent
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 4/6] crypto: af_alg - use sock_kzalloc in alloc_result + accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 3/6] crypto: algif_aead - use sock_kzalloc in aead_accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 2/6] crypto: af_alg - use sock_kzalloc in af_alg_alloc_areq
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD29d [PATCH 1/3] net: Remove support for AIO on sockets
  2026-05-23 · Demi Marie Obenour <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH 2/3] AF_ALG: Drop support for off-CPU cryptography
  2026-05-23 · Demi Marie Obenour <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH 3/3] AF_ALG: Document that it is *always* slower
  2026-05-23 · Demi Marie Obenour <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH 2/3] crypto: inside-secure: add EIP93 ESP packet backend
  2026-05-23 · Jihong Min <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 6/6] crypto: api - Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into crypto_create_tfm_node()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 5/6] crypto: api - Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into __crypto_alloc_tfm()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 4/6] crypto: api - Remove per-tfm refcount
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH net-next 3/6] crypto: api - Remove crypto_clone_tfm()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH net-next 2/6] crypto: cipher - Remove crypto_clone_cipher()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH net-next 1/6] crypto: hash - Remove support for cloning hash tfms
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] crypto: pcbc - Remove support for PCBC mode
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] crypto: fcrypt - Remove support for FCrypt block cipher
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD21d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v4 1/3] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH net v3 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH net v2 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-13 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - Document the deprecation of AF_ALG
  2026-04-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH net-next 4/5] crypto: fcrypt - Remove support for FCrypt block cipher
  2026-04-28 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH net-next 5/5] crypto: pcbc - Remove support for PCBC mode
  2026-04-28 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 7/8] crypto: cipher - Remove support for cloning cipher tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 8/8] crypto: api - Remove core support for cloning tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 6/8] crypto: hash - Remove support for cloning hash tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE90d [PATCH 4/8] core: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH] treewide: fix duplicated word "the" in comments
  2026-02-24 · Yousef El Bouzidi <hidden>

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.

• STALE155d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH net-next 2/2] lib/crypto: sha1: Remove low-level functions from API
  2026-01-23 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 2/6] crypto: af_alg - use sock_kzalloc in af_alg_alloc_areq
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 3/6] crypto: algif_aead - use sock_kzalloc in aead_accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 4/6] crypto: af_alg - use sock_kzalloc in alloc_result + accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 5/6] crypto: algif_rng - use sock_kzalloc in rng_accept_parent
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 6/6] crypto: algif_skcipher - use sock_kzalloc in accept_parent_nokey
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE120d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH 4/8] core: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 6/8] crypto: hash - Remove support for cloning hash tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 7/8] crypto: cipher - Remove support for cloning cipher tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [RFC PATCH 8/8] crypto: api - Remove core support for cloning tfms
  2026-03-07 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH net v3 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v4 1/3] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 4/6] crypto: api - Remove per-tfm refcount
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 5/6] crypto: api - Fold __crypto_alloc_tfmgfp() into __crypto_alloc_tfm()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH net-next 6/6] crypto: api - Fold crypto_alloc_tfmmem() into crypto_create_tfm_node()
  2026-05-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>