kernel selftest framework · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
• M Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest*
• F tools/testing/selftests/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM3d [PATCH v1 0/2] luo support for preserving eventfd
  2026-06-25 05:49 · 1 reply in 7d · Chenghao Duan <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/3] ovl: make cachestat() work
  2026-06-23 11:16 · 1 reply in 7d · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] fs: support $ORIGIN in ELF interpreter paths
  2026-06-22 04:39 · 1 reply in 7d · Farid Zakaria <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH v1 2/2] selftests: liveupdate: Add selftest for eventfd LUO
  2026-06-25 · Chenghao Duan <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 3/3] selftests/cachestat: add an overlayfs test case
  2026-06-23 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] selftests/exec: add test suites for $ORIGIN interpreter resolution
  2026-06-22 · Farid Zakaria <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/fuse: add test for FUSE_HAS_SYNCFS privilege gating
  2026-06-19 · Jimmy Zuber <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc
  2026-06-18 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] selftests: proc: include fcntl.h in proc-pidns
  2026-06-18 · Amin Vakil <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add test for bpf_sock_read_xattr() kfunc
  2026-06-17 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/fuse: add test for FUSE_HAS_SYNCFS privilege gating
  2026-06-16 · Jimmy Zuber <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 4/4] selftest: Add tests for useful handling of LSM denials on SCM_RIGHTS
  2026-06-16 · Jori Koolstra <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC v2 18/18] selftests/filesystems: add ustat() coverage
  2026-06-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 09/10] selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: test idmapped overlay mounts
  2026-06-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 08/10] selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: fix set_layers_via_fds link error
  2026-06-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/filesystems: test O_TMPFILE creation on idmapped mounts
  2026-06-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH 12/12] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY)
  2026-06-14 · Jori Koolstra <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH RFC 3/3] KVM: selftests: exercise guest_memfd folio migration
  2026-06-11 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• COLD23d IN MM [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  2026-06-04 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD24d [PATCH v3 1/2] selftests/eventpoll: Add test for multiple waiters
  2026-06-02 · Nam Cao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC PATCH v6 9/9] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY)
  2026-05-31 · Jori Koolstra <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/eventpoll: Add test for multiple waiters
  2026-05-30 · Nam Cao <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  2026-05-30 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD29d [PATCH v4 09/11] kernel/api: add runtime verification selftest
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH] fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
  2026-05-29 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD17d [RFC PATCH v1 13/13] selftests/exec: cover spawn template basics
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v2 6/9] selftests/landlock: Add namespace restriction tests
  2026-05-27 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD23d [PATCH v2 7/9] selftests/landlock: Add capability restriction tests
  2026-05-27 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD24d [RFC PATCH v5 2/2] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY)
  2026-05-25 · Jori Koolstra <hidden>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  2026-05-24 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  2026-05-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH] selftests: openat2: port emptypath_test to kselftest harness
  2026-05-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [RFC PATCH v4 2/2] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY)
  2026-05-18 · Jori Koolstra <hidden>

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.

• STALE74d REVIEWED: 16 (14M) [PATCH 4/4] selftests/exec: add test for HWCAP inheritance
  2026-03-23 · Andrei Vagin <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/4] selftests/lam: Update LAM tag width and cleanup names
  2026-04-29 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  2026-05-24 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 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.

• STALE201d [PATCH 2/3] selftests/cgroup: Add a test for the misc.mask cgroup interface
  2025-12-05 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 08/13] KVM: selftests: load elf via bounce buffer
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 10/13] KVM: selftests: Add guest_memfd based vm_mem_backing_src_types
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 09/13] KVM: selftests: set KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD in vm_mem_add() if guest_memfd != -1
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 12/13] KVM: selftests: stuff vm_mem_backing_src_type into vm_shape
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 13/13] KVM: selftests: Test guest execution from direct map removed gmem
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH v8 11/13] KVM: selftests: cover GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_NO_DIRECT_MAP in existing selftests
  2025-12-05 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined
  2025-12-18 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH 1/1] proc: test lseek on /proc/net/dev
  2025-12-26 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>