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

Recent patches

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

• COLD34d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 083/307] remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 6.1 455/969] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH 6.6 031/508] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH 6.12 041/666] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH 6.18 068/957] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE64d [PATCH 7.0 0083/1146] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE65d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.15] module: Override -EEXIST module return
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 014/312] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-04-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 039/309] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 026/244] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.19 045/342] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 022/175] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE130d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCH 6.18 212/314] module: Remove duplicate freeing of lockdep classes
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCH 6.19 185/311] module: Remove duplicate freeing of lockdep classes
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 100/232] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 120/283] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 194/385] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 262/641] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.19 350/781] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE330d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1 209/482] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE330d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6 262/587] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE331d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.16 424/570] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE333d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.15 391/515] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE334d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.12 328/444] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE344d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.15 009/480] audit,module: restore audit logging in load failure case
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE342d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.16 001/627] audit,module: restore audit logging in load failure case
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE344d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 007/369] audit,module: restore audit logging in load failure case
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE345d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 006/262] audit,module: restore audit logging in load failure case
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE343d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.16-6.1] module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2)
  2025-08-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 194/385] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 120/283] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 100/232] module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE65d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.15] module: Override -EEXIST module return
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE64d [PATCH 7.0 0083/1146] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH 6.18 068/957] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH 6.12 041/666] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH 6.6 031/508] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 6.1 455/969] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>