exec & binfmt api, elf · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/userspace-api/ELF.rst
• F fs/*binfmt_*.c
• F fs/Kconfig.binfmt
• F fs/exec.c
• F fs/tests/binfmt_*_kunit.c
• F fs/tests/exec_kunit.c
• F include/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/linux/elf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h
• F include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
• F include/uapi/linux/elf.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F mm/vma_exec.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/exec/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 00/40] DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 06:19 · 1 reply in 7d · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Harry Yoo <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Gwan-gyeong Mun <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Yunseong Kim <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Yeoreum Yun <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE121d Re: Stalls when starting a VSOCK listening socket: soft lockups, RCU stalls, timeout
  2026-03-06 · Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>
• STALE186d Re: [syzbot] [perf?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __task_pid_nr_ns
  2026-01-05 · Qing Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v18 01/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE248d [PATCH v4 11/72] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE248d [PATCH v4 10/72] ns: rename to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
  2025-10-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE254d [PATCH v3 11/70] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE254d [PATCH v3 10/70] ns: rename to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
  2025-10-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v17 02/47] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE294d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/4] copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE294d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE350d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v16 02/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-19 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE420d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v15 02/43] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-05-13 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE440d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 3/4] pidfs: get rid of __pidfd_prepare()
  2025-04-25 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE441d [PATCH RFC 3/4] pidfs: get rid of __pidfd_prepare()
  2025-04-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE423d [RFC PATCH 2/7] treewide, slab: allow slab constructor to return an error
  2025-04-24 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE423d [RFC PATCH 7/7] kernel/fork: improve exec() throughput with slab ctor/dtor pair
  2025-04-24 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE465d [RFC PATCH V3 25/43] rv64ilp32_abi: exec: Adapt 64lp64 env and argv
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE573d [PATCH net-next v2 09/10] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-12-06 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE582d [PATCH net-next v1 09/10] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-11-14 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE617d [PATCH RFC 09/10] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-10-28 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE621d [PATCH net-next v22 12/14] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-10-18 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE632d [PATCH net-next v21 12/14] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-10-12 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE636d [PATCH net-next v20 12/14] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-10-08 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE640d [PATCH v9 1/7] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-10-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE640d [PATCH net-next v19 12/14] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-10-01 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE647d [PATCH v3 5/5] selftests: exec: update gitignore for load_address
  2024-09-25 · Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
• STALE652d [PATCH v2 4/4] selftests: exec: update gitignore for load_address
  2024-09-25 · Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
• STALE652d [PATCH 4/4] selftests: exec: update gitignore for load_address
  2024-09-24 · Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
• STALE666d [PATCH net-next v18 12/14] net: replace page_frag with page_frag_cache
  2024-09-06 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>