live patching · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• M Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
• M Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch
• F Documentation/livepatch/
• F arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
• F include/linux/livepatch*.h
• F kernel/livepatch/
• F kernel/module/livepatch.c
• F samples/livepatch/
• F scripts/livepatch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 12 patches in this subsystem on bpf, ordered by date desc.

• COLD16d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE93d Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] livepatch: Add "replaceable" attribute to klp_patch
  2026-04-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE93d [RFC PATCH 4/4] livepatch: Implement livepatch hybrid mode
  2026-04-02 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE93d [RFC PATCH 3/4] livepatch: Add "replaceable" attribute to klp_patch
  2026-04-02 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] powerpc64/bpf: support direct_call on livepatch function
  2025-10-08 · Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE189d [PATCH] powerpc64/bpf: support direct_call on livepatch function
  2025-10-02 · Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE445d [RFC][PATCH 2/2] treewide: Have the task->flags & PF_KTHREAD check use the helper functions
  2025-04-25 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1274d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCHv3 bpf-next 1/3] livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  2023-01-16 · Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
• STALE1278d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCHv2 bpf-next 1/3] livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  2023-01-13 · Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
• STALE1283d [PATCH 1/3] livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  2022-12-30 · Zhen Lei <hidden>
• STALE1283d [PATCH 3/3] kallsyms: Delete an unused parameter related to {module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  2022-12-30 · Zhen Lei <hidden>
• STALE1658d [PATCH bpf-next v5 1/9] kernel: Add kallsyms_on_each_symbol variant for single module
  2021-12-30 · Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

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.

• STALE93d [RFC PATCH 4/4] livepatch: Implement livepatch hybrid mode
  2026-04-02 · Yafang Shao <hidden>