module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module*.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/9] bpf: make the vmlinux BTF an on-demand loadable module (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=m) to save ~5.4 MB memory
  2026-09-25 22:44 · 2 replies in 7d · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/9] bpf: make the vmlinux BTF an on-demand loadable module (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=m) to save ~5.4 MB memory
  2026-09-25 21:14 · 1 reply in 7d · Jay Wang <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH bpf-next v3 8/9] bpf, trace, net: prepare CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF checks for a tristate
  2026-09-25 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH bpf-next v3 4/9] bpf: take the vmlinux BTF from the btf_vmlinux module
  2026-09-25 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH bpf-next v2 4/9] bpf: take the vmlinux BTF from the btf_vmlinux module
  2026-09-25 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH bpf-next 4/6] bpf: take the vmlinux BTF from the btf_vmlinux module
  2026-09-23 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH] module: Add stubs.c for CONFIG_MODULES=n module_put_and_kthread_exit()
  2026-09-22 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 bpf-next 14/18] btf: Make vmlinux, module inline info available in /sys/kernel/btf
  2026-09-01 · Alan Maguire <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 12/14] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 06/14] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 10/14] module: Prepare for additional module authentication mechanisms
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 14/14] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 05/14] module: Make mod_verify_sig() static
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 04/14] module: Drop pointless debugging message
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 09/14] module: Move signature type check out of mod_check_sig()
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 07/14] module: Make module authentication usable without MODULE_SIG
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 08/14] module: Move authentication logic into dedicated new file
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE195d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE166d [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-06 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE187d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE209d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE210d [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE217d [PATCH] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2025-12-30 · Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
• STALE273d [RFC PATCH v1] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2025-12-24 · Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
• STALE285d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/7] module: Add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2025-11-28 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE321d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/7] module: Add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2025-11-12 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE323d [PATCH 1/6] module: Add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2025-11-05 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE329d [RFC bpf-next 12/15] kbuild, module, bpf: Support CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_EXTRA=m
  2025-10-08 · Alan Maguire <hidden>

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.

• STALE166d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH v5 04/14] module: Drop pointless debugging message
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>