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)

• COOLING4d [PATCH 00/27] landlock: Selftest fixes and cleanups
  2026-10-08 14:27 · 27 replies in 7d · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 0/8] Landlock: Namespace and capability control
  2026-10-07 10:03 · 3 replies in 7d · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-23
• Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-23

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH 27/27] selftests/landlock: Use EXPECT for checks that later steps do not need
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 26/27] selftests/landlock: Use EXPECT for closing FDs and stopping threads
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 25/27] selftests/landlock: Assert WIFEXITED() before checking the exit status
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 24/27] selftests/landlock: Use ASSERT for syscall failures before errno checks
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 23/27] selftests/landlock: Fix stale comments in common.h and audit.h
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 22/27] selftests/landlock: Fix messages and comments in helper programs
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 21/27] selftests/landlock: Use _exit() in the named_pipe_ioctl child
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 20/27] selftests/landlock: Fix the snprintf() error check in matches_log_fs_extra()
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 19/27] selftests/landlock: Fix off-by-one in regex_escape()
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 18/27] selftests/landlock: Fix regex_escape() error handling in matches_log_fs_extra()
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 17/27] selftests/landlock: Fix SIGURG handler setup in scoped_signal_test
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 16/27] selftests/landlock: Check errno for combined VERSION and ERRATA flags
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 15/27] selftests/landlock: Close leaked file descriptors
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 14/27] selftests/landlock: Make audit_message large enough for any exe filter
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 13/27] selftests/landlock: Fix memory leak in audit_init_filter_exe()
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 12/27] selftests/landlock: Assert audit_count_records() before using its result
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 11/27] selftests/landlock: Assert helper results that are used afterwards
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 10/27] selftests/landlock: Assert audit initialization in fixture setups
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 09/27] selftests/landlock: Assert tracefs_extract_field() results that are used
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 08/27] selftests/landlock: Handle a missing control message in recv_fd()
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 07/27] selftests/landlock: Fix the ruleset_fd check in empty_or_same_ruleset
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 06/27] selftests/landlock: Fix the reported clock tick rate in fs_bench
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 05/27] selftests/landlock: Fix the openat() success check in fs_bench
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 04/27] selftests/landlock: Zero-initialize the buffer in inconsistent_attr
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 03/27] selftests/landlock: Check the thread result in audit.thread
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 02/27] selftests/landlock: Propagate EXPECT failures from forked children
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 01/27] selftests/landlock: Propagate grandchild failures in unix_scoping
  2026-10-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 6/8] selftests/landlock: Add capability restriction tests
  2026-10-07 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 5/8] selftests/landlock: Add namespace restriction tests
  2026-10-07 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 3/8] landlock: Enforce namespace use restrictions
  2026-10-07 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>

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.

• STALE195d [PATCH v3 9/9] selftests/hornet: Add a selftest for the Hornet LSM +8 more in this series
  2026-03-26 · Blaise Boscaccy <hidden>
• STALE193d LANDED [PATCH v8 08/12] selftests/landlock: Test LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_RESOLVE_UNIX +11 more in this series
  2026-03-27 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 3/4] selftests/landlock: Drain stale audit records on init +3 more in this series
  2026-04-01 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• STALE192d LANDED [PATCH v3 4/5] selftests/landlock: Skip stale records in audit_match_record()
  2026-04-02 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• STALE83d [RFC PATCH 16/20] landlock: Bump ABI version +19 more in this series
  2026-04-07 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH 1/5] selftests/landlock: fix return condition on create_directory
  2026-04-12 · Jeffrey Bencteux <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH 3/5] selftests/landlock: add tests for chmod and chown restrictions
  2026-04-12 · Jeffrey Bencteux <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH v4 4/7] selftests/landlock: Add UDP bind/connect tests
  2026-05-02 · Matthieu Buffet <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH v4 5/7] selftests/landlock: Add tests for sendmsg()
  2026-05-02 · Matthieu Buffet <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH RFC 5/5] selftests/dmabuf-heaps: Add dma-buf memcg accounting tests
  2026-05-12 · Albert Esteve <hidden>