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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH] module: reject out-of-range relocation target indices
  2026-09-08 23:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Artem Kuzin <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-27
• Alexander Grubnikov <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-27
• Ilya Hanov <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-27
• Denis Darvish <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-27

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] module: reject out-of-range relocation target indices
  2026-09-08 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [RFC PATCH 17/18] mm: init kernel modules with replication support
  2026-08-27 · Nikita Panov <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 18/18] mm: introduce kernel cmdline option "kernel_replication="
  2026-08-27 · Nikita Panov <hidden>
• COOLING7d [RFC PATCH 4/9] module: Allocate MOD_INIT_TEXT from the MOD_TEXT ROX allocation
  2026-08-22 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 11/19] build: add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES support for the standalone crypto kernel module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 10/19] module: skip modversion checks for crypto modules
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 06/19] crypto: add pluggable interface for module symbols referenced by the main kernel
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 05/19] module: allow kernel module loading directly from memory
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE196d [PATCH 10/17] build: add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES support for the standalone crypto kernel module
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE196d [PATCH 06/17] crypto: add pluggable interface for builtin crypto modules
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE196d [PATCH 05/17] module: allow kernel module loading directly from memory
  2026-02-12 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE262d [PATCH v7 21/31] dyndbg-API: replace DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE262d [PATCH v7 15/31] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE265d [PATCH v7 23/31] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-11-14 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE308d [PATCH v6 22/29] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-10-10 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE370d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 8/9] kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  2025-09-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE331d [PATCH 5/5] kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  2025-08-25 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE366d [PATCH v4 19/58] dyndbg-API: replace DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP
  2025-08-03 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE366d [PATCH v4 13/58] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2025-08-03 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE728d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 1/1] module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors
  2024-09-11 · Chunhui Li <hidden>
• STALE732d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 1/1] module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors
  2024-09-06 · Chunhui Li <hidden>
• STALE735d [PATCH v2] module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors
  2024-09-04 · Chunhui Li <hidden>
• STALE737d [PATCH] module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors
  2024-08-30 · Chunhui Li <hidden>
• STALE845d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH RESEND v8 08/16] mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE845d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH RESEND v8 06/16] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE845d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v8 05/16] module: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE856d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v8 08/17] mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE856d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v8 06/17] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE856d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 05/17] module: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE860d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v7 08/16] mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem
  2024-04-29 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.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.

• STALE145d [PATCH v2 06/19] crypto: add pluggable interface for module symbols referenced by the main kernel
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 10/19] module: skip modversion checks for crypto modules
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v2 11/19] build: add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES support for the standalone crypto kernel module
  2026-04-18 · Jay Wang <hidden>