objtool · Supported

Maintainers

• M Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Paths

• F include/linux/objtool*.h
• F tools/objtool/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH 00/14] objtool/klp: sympos/module/alternative/etc fixes
  2026-08-12 13:13 · 1 reply in 7d · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-03
• Ben Procknow <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-03
• Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-03
• Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-03

Recent patches

Most-recent 21 patches in this subsystem on linux-modules, ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d Re: [PATCH 05/14] objtool/klp: Add .klp.symid for sympos disambiguation
  2026-08-12 · Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 14/14] objtool/klp: Allow new references to module exports
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 13/14] objtool/klp: Don't match local symbols against exports
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 11/14] objtool/klp: Explicitly disallow patching or referencing init code/data
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 12/14] objtool/klp: Fix cross-module klp relocation section naming
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 10/14] objtool/klp: Ignore replacement offset of empty x86 alternatives
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 08/14] objtool/klp,livepatch: Resolve module symbols against core kallsyms
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 09/14] objtool/klp: Fix size of empty special section entries
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 06/14] objtool/klp: Fix symbol resolution for duplicate data symbols
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 05/14] objtool/klp: Add .klp.symid for sympos disambiguation
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 02/14] objtool/klp: Normalize Module.symvers paths to module names
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 03/14] objtool/klp: Fix false module dependencies caused by dead relocs
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 01/14] objtool/klp: Fix module name normalization for paths with dots
  2026-08-03 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• STALE150d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE150d [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE191d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
  2026-01-23 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE205d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 2/2] livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
  2026-01-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE207d [PATCH 2/2] livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
  2026-01-14 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE467d [PATCH v5 21/25] objtool: Add noinstr validation for static branches/calls
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE467d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 02/25] objtool: Flesh out warning related to pv_ops[] calls
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE467d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 01/25] objtool: Make validate_call() recognize indirect calls to pv_ops[]
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>