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)

• Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-04
• Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-04
• 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-kselftest (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-08-04 · Wang Han <hidden>
• COLD21d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-31 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD28d [RFC PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-30 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 RESEND 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v3 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-09 · Wang Han <hidden>
• STALE69d Re: [PATCH 1/4] selftests: livepatch: Introduce _remove_mod function
  2026-06-05 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE79d [PATCH v2] selftests/livepatch: fix resource leak in test_klp_syscall init error path
  2026-06-04 · Rui Qi <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH] selftests/livepatch: fix resource leak in test_klp_syscall init error path
  2026-06-02 · Rui Qi <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-28 · Wang Han <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-27 · Wang Han <hidden>
• STALE85d [PATCH] selftests: livepatch: set LC_ALL=C to fix locale-dependent test failure
  2026-05-27 · Qiang Ma <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH] selftests: livepatch: unset sub_make_done in case top level Makefile be overwritten
  2026-05-25 · Zelin Deng <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 4/4] selftests: livepatch: Add information about minimum kernel support
  2026-05-24 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 3/4] selftests: livepatch: Adapt mod_target module to pass on 4.12 kernels
  2026-05-24 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 2/4] selftests: livepatch: Remove leftover modules when a testcase fails
  2026-05-24 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 1/4] selftests: livepatch: Introduce _remove_mod function
  2026-05-24 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 6/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if stack_order sysfs attribute exists
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 4/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if patched sysfs attribute exists
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 3/6] selftests: livepatch: Introduce does_sysfs_exist function
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v5 1/6] selftests: livepatch: Check for ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER config
  2026-05-04 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 6/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if stack_order sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v4 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v4 4/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if patched sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v4 3/6] selftests: livepatch: Introduce does_sysfs_exist function
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v4 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v4 1/6] selftests: livepatch: Check for ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER config
  2026-04-29 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 6/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if stack_order sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-08-04 · Wang Han <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE149d [PATCH 6/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of stack_order attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH 7/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of patched attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if stack_order sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 1/6] selftests: livepatch: Check for ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER config
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 3/6] selftests: livepatch: Introduce does_sysfs_exist function
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 4/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if patched sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>