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)

• WARM1d [PATCH v2 0/6] landlock: Add scoped access bit for SysV message queues
  2026-07-27 23:08 · 3 replies in 7d · Justin Suess <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v3 00/12] Landlock: Namespace and capability control
  2026-07-26 16:14 · 3 replies in 7d · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 0/5] landlock: Restrict whiteout object creation
  2026-07-24 16:10 · 3 replies in 7d · "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v2 4/6] selftests/landlock: Test LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SYSV_MSG_QUEUE
  2026-07-27 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 3/6] landlock: Bump ABI for LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SYSV_MSG_QUEUE
  2026-07-27 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 2/6] landlock: Add LANDLOCK_SCOPE_SYSV_MSG_QUEUE
  2026-07-27 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v3 10/12] selftests/landlock: Add capability restriction tests
  2026-07-26 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• WARM3d [PATCH v3 09/12] selftests/landlock: Add namespace restriction tests
  2026-07-26 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• WARM3d [PATCH v3 07/12] landlock: Enforce namespace use restrictions
  2026-07-26 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 4/5] selftests/landlock: Test whiteout object behaviour in OverlayFS renames
  2026-07-24 · "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 3/5] selftests/landlock: Add tests for whiteout object creation
  2026-07-24 · "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 1/5] selftests/landlock: Use an actual chardev for MAKE_CHAR audit test
  2026-07-24 · "Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 19/20] selftests/landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain trace tests
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 18/20] selftests/landlock: Add scope and ptrace tracepoint tests
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 17/20] selftests/landlock: Add network tracepoint tests
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 16/20] selftests/landlock: Add filesystem tracepoint tests
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 15/20] selftests/landlock: Add trace event test infrastructure and tests
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v1] selftests/landlock: Add tests for O_TMPFILE
  2026-07-22 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 4/6] selftests/landlock: Test POSIX message queue scoping
  2026-07-22 · Oxana Kharitonova <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 3/6] landlock: Bump ABI for LANDLOCK_SCOPE_POSIX_MSG_QUEUE
  2026-07-22 · Oxana Kharitonova <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 2/3] selftests/landlock: Test LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NO_NEW_PRIVS
  2026-07-17 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• COOLING13d [RFC PATCH 23/24] selftests/pidfd: cover pidfd spawn builders
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Skip scoped_signal subtest with MSG_OOB if not available
  2026-07-10 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] selftests/landlock: Fix screwed up pointers in the scoped_signal_test
  2026-07-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH 2/3] selftests/landlock: Test LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NNP_ON_EXEC
  2026-07-08 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• COLD21d 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>
• COLD21d 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>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_init_inode_xattr kfunc
  2026-07-08 · David Windsor <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH bpf-next v5 7/8] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-07 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COLD22d [PATCH bpf-next v5 6/8] selftests/bpf: Adjust bpf_map layout in verifier_map_ptr
  2026-07-07 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COLD23d [PATCH bpf-next v4 8/9] selftests/bpf: Verify load-time signed loader metadata
  2026-07-06 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COLD23d [PATCH bpf-next v4 7/9] selftests/bpf: Adjust bpf_map layout in verifier_map_ptr
  2026-07-06 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COLD22d [PATCH v2] selftests/lsm: Fix memory leak in attr_lsm_count
  2026-07-03 · Wang Yan <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
• STALE125d 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
• STALE125d 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.

• STALE198d [RFC PATCH 4/5] landlock/selftests: test LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_CONNECT_UNIX
  2026-01-01 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH v2 4/5] landlock/selftests: Test named UNIX domain socket restrictions
  2026-01-10 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH v3 4/5] landlock/selftests: Test named UNIX domain socket restrictions
  2026-01-19 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH v3 1/6] landlock: Add LANDLOCK_SCOPE_PATHNAME_UNIX_SOCKET scope bit to uAPI
  2026-02-03 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH v3 4/6] selftests/landlock: Support pathname socket path in set_unix_address
  2026-02-03 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH v3 5/6] selftests/landlock: Repurpose scoped_abstract_unix_test.c for pathname sockets too
  2026-02-03 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH v3 6/6] selftests/landlock: Add pathname socket variants for more tests
  2026-02-03 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE134d [PATCH v5 5/9] landlock/selftests: Audit test for LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX
  2026-02-15 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE134d [PATCH v5 7/9] landlock/selftests: fs_test: Simplify ruleset creation and enforcement
  2026-02-15 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE134d Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] landlock/selftests: Check that coredump sockets stay unrestricted
  2026-02-18 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>