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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-31
• Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-31

Recent patches

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

• COOLING9d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-31 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD16d [RFC PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-30 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH] Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  2026-01-23 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE254d [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: use a source-read extension to include the index boilerplate
  2025-11-12 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE254d [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: include the boilerplate for SPHINXDIRS index link
  2025-11-12 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE529d LANDED [PATCH v2] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block
  2025-02-27 · Vincenzo MEZZELA <hidden>
• STALE534d [PATCH] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block
  2025-02-27 · Vincenzo MEZZELA <hidden>
• STALE704d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: livepatch: Correct release locks antonym
  2024-09-03 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE936d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall
  2024-01-12 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE936d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch
  2024-01-12 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE947d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall
  2024-01-10 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE947d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch
  2024-01-10 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE948d [PATCH] Documentation/livepatch: Update terminology in livepatch
  2023-12-23 · attreyee-muk <hidden>
• STALE949d [PATCH RESEND v4 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall
  2023-12-20 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE949d [PATCH RESEND v4 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch
  2023-12-20 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE990d [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: livepatch: Correct opposite of releasing locks
  2023-11-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE990d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: livepatch: Correct "step on each other's toes" idiom
  2023-11-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE990d [PATCH] Took care of some grammatical mistakes
  2023-11-27 · attreyee-muk <hidden>
• STALE970d [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall
  2023-10-31 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE970d [PATCH v3 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch
  2023-10-31 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE1002d LANDED [PATCH RFC] docs: automarkup: linkify git revs
  2023-10-27 · Vegard Nossum <hidden>
• STALE1286d [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: livepatch: module-elf-format: Remove local klp_modinfo definition
  2023-02-03 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE1420d Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api
  2022-09-23 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] doc: module: update file references
  2022-06-14 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
• STALE1506d [PATCH] doc: module: update file references
  2022-06-13 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
• STALE1669d [PATCH v3 02/19] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-01-17 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1697d LANDED [PATCH v3] Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page
  2021-12-21 · David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
• STALE1700d [PATCH v2] Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page
  2021-12-15 · David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
• STALE1702d [PATCH] livepatch: Fix leak on klp_init_patch_early failure path
  2021-12-13 · David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
• STALE1706d [PATCH] Documentation: livepatch: Add kernel-doc link to klp_enable_patch
  2021-12-09 · David Vernet <void@manifault.com>