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)

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 00/24] pidfd: add a minimal process spawn builder
  2026-07-16 14:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Skip scoped_signal subtest with MSG_OOB if not available
  2026-07-10 08:16 · 0 replies in 7d · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Fix screwed up pointers in the scoped_signal_test
  2026-07-09 16:45 · 0 replies in 7d · Thomas Huth <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 23/24] selftests/pidfd: cover pidfd spawn builders
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Skip scoped_signal subtest with MSG_OOB if not available
  2026-07-10 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Fix screwed up pointers in the scoped_signal_test
  2026-07-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 2/3] selftests/landlock: Test LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NNP_ON_EXEC
  2026-07-08 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• COOLING7d IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next v6 6/8] selftests/bpf: Adjust bpf_map layout in verifier_map_ptr
  2026-07-08 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING7d IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next v6 7/8] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-08 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v5 bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc
  2026-07-08 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH bpf-next v5 7/8] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-07 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING8d [PATCH bpf-next v5 6/8] selftests/bpf: Adjust bpf_map layout in verifier_map_ptr
  2026-07-07 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING9d [PATCH bpf-next v4 8/9] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-06 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING9d [PATCH bpf-next v4 7/9] selftests/bpf: Adjust bpf_map layout in verifier_map_ptr
  2026-07-06 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v2] selftests/lsm: Fix memory leak in attr_lsm_count
  2026-07-03 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] selftests/lsm: Fix memory leak in attr_lsm_count
  2026-07-03 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH bpf-next v3 5/6] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-02 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v2] selftests/landlock: fix spelling error in fs_test comment
  2026-07-02 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/landlock: Add test for TCP fast open
  2026-07-01 · Matthieu Buffet <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH 5/6] selftests/landlock: fix spelling error in fs_test comment
  2026-07-01 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v4 bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc
  2026-06-30 · David Windsor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Fix snprintf truncation checks in test files
  2026-06-26 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH bpf-next v2 4/5] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-06-24 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COLD25d [PATCH v9 8/9] selftests/landlock: Add selftests for LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT
  2026-06-21 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v9 5/9] landlock: Implement LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT
  2026-06-21 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH 2/2] lsm: fix size queries for getselfattr with NULL buffer
  2026-06-19 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc
  2026-06-18 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC PATCH 2/2] selftests/landlock: Add test for TCP fast open
  2026-06-17 · Matthieu Buffet <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] landlock: Set audit_net.sk for socket access checks
  2026-06-12 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v11 9/9] selftests/landlock: Add tests for invalid use of quiet flag
  2026-06-12 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH v11 8/9] selftests/landlock: Add tests for quiet flag with scope
  2026-06-12 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH v11 7/9] selftests/landlock: add tests for quiet flag with net rules
  2026-06-12 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH v11 6/9] selftests/landlock: add tests for quiet flag with fs rules
  2026-06-12 · Tingmao Wang <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: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 8/8] selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 7/8] sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 2/9] landlock: Add API support and docs for the quiet flags
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 5/9] selftests/landlock: Replace hard-coded 16 with a constant
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 6/9] selftests/landlock: add tests for quiet flag with fs rules
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 7/9] selftests/landlock: add tests for quiet flag with net rules
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 8/9] selftests/landlock: Add tests for quiet flag with scope
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v7 9/9] selftests/landlock: Add tests for invalid use of quiet flag
  2025-12-21 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH v6 4/6] selftests/landlock: Implement selftests for LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_NO_INHERIT
  2025-12-21 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE199d LANDED [PATCH 1/5] selftests/landlock: Fix typo in fs_test
  2025-12-28 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE199d LANDED [PATCH 2/5] selftests/landlock: Fix missing semicolon
  2025-12-28 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>