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_param.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-02

Recent patches

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

• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 19/25] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-06-02 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 19/24] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-06-01 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD20d [PATCH v2 24/24] dyndbg: improve section names
  2026-05-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 19/24] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-05-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD24d [PATCH v2 1/7] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-05-21 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 12/17] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-05-04 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD41d [PATCH v6 03/11] umh: add dirfd parameter
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v14 19/92] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-04-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE96d [PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-06 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE101d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3 02/12] rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
  2026-01-12 · Gary Guo <gary@kernel.org>
• STALE153d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v2 02/11] rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
  2026-01-07 · Gary Guo <gary@kernel.org>
• STALE160d [PATCH 02/11] rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
  2025-12-11 · Gary Guo <gary@kernel.org>
• STALE173d REVIEWED: 31 (31M) [PATCH v2 10/19] rust: macros: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-09-25 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE237d [PATCH 1/4] PCI: Support FIXUP quirks in modules
  2025-09-12 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE303d REVIEWED: 31 (31M) [PATCH v2 10/19] rust: macros: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-08-13 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE338d LANDED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v2 1/3] module: move 'struct module_use' to internal.h
  2025-07-11 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE313d REVIEWED: 29 (29M) [PATCH 10/17] rust: macros: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-10 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE344d REVIEWED: 34 (34M) [PATCH v13 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE344d REVIEWED: 29 (29M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE348d [PATCH v12 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE348d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE338d [PATCH 1/3] module: move 'struct module_use' to internal.h
  2025-06-12 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v11 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE380d [PATCH v10 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE380d [PATCH v10 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE405d [PATCH v5 23/25] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>

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.

• STALE153d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v2 02/11] rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
  2026-01-07 · Gary Guo <gary@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3 02/12] rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
  2026-01-12 · Gary Guo <gary@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE101d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v14 19/92] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-04-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 12/17] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-05-04 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 19/24] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info
  2026-05-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 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.

• STALE102d [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH v6 03/11] umh: add dirfd parameter
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>