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)

• Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
  6 attestations (3 Reported-by, 3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Aaron Lewis <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Bradley Morgan <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12

Recent patches

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

• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5] seccomp: restore knotif->state when SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND is interrupted
  2026-09-22 · Hui Peng <hidden>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4] seccomp: restore knotif->state when SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND is interrupted
  2026-09-20 · Hui Peng <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 6.12 0936/1102] Revert "selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused"
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 6.12 1096/1376] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 6.12 1095/1376] selftests: harness: Restore order of test functions
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 6.18 1160/1518] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 6.18 1159/1518] selftests: harness: Restore order of test functions
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 7.2 1408/1815] selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18 071/325] selftests: harness: fix pidfd leak in __wait_for_test
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 7.0 077/378] selftests: harness: fix pidfd leak in __wait_for_test
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.77
  2026-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH 6.12 237/265] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH 6.12 236/265] kselftest/harness: Use helper to avoid zero-size memset warning
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE206d Re: Linux 6.18.17
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.7
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE203d [PATCH 6.18 299/314] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE203d [PATCH 6.18 298/314] kselftest/harness: Use helper to avoid zero-size memset warning
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE205d [PATCH 6.19 292/311] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE338d Re: Linux 6.17.7
  2025-11-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.57
  2025-11-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE337d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 6.17 17/35] seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  2025-10-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE327d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 6.12 07/40] seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  2025-10-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE356d Re: Linux 6.17.3
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.53
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.112
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.156
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE348d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.17 171/563] selftests/kselftest_harness: Add harness-selftest.expected to TEST_FILES
  2025-10-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE348d [PATCH 6.17 006/563] seccomp: Fix a race with WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV if the tracer replies too fast
  2025-10-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4] seccomp: restore knotif->state when SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND is interrupted
  2026-09-20 · Hui Peng <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5] seccomp: restore knotif->state when SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND is interrupted
  2026-09-22 · Hui Peng <hidden> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.7
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE206d Re: Linux 6.18.17
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH 6.12 236/265] kselftest/harness: Use helper to avoid zero-size memset warning
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH 6.12 237/265] selftests/harness: order TEST_F and XFAIL_ADD constructors
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.77
  2026-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>