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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday improve the kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API v2
  2026-05-28 09:34 · 1 reply in 7d · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Recent patches

Most-recent 19 patches in this subsystem on netdev, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  2026-05-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  2026-05-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• WARM1d [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD21d IN MM [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/kfence: Use special gfp_t format specifier
  2026-03-26 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE168d [PATCH 05/14] mm, kfence: Describe @slab parameter in __kfence_obj_info()
  2025-12-15 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE237d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v2 35/37] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-09-01 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE275d [PATCH v1 34/36] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-08-27 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE237d [PATCH RFC 33/35] kfence: drop nth_page() usage
  2025-08-21 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE387d [RFC PATCH 2/7] treewide, slab: allow slab constructor to return an error
  2025-04-24 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE1099d Re: [PATCH RFC] mm+net: allow to set kmem_cache create flag for SLAB_NEVER_MERGE
  2023-05-31 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE1099d LANDED [PATCH RFC] mm+net: allow to set kmem_cache create flag for SLAB_NEVER_MERGE
  2023-01-17 · Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 3/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1296d [PATCH v1 5/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_between() when possible
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1296d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1803d Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not warn on EEXIST or ENOENT
  2021-06-26 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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.

• COLD21d IN MM [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/kfence: Use special gfp_t format specifier
  2026-03-26 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>