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-security-module (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING8d [PATCH 2/2] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 12/14] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 06/14] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 10/14] module: Prepare for additional module authentication mechanisms
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 14/14] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 05/14] module: Make mod_verify_sig() static
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 04/14] module: Drop pointless debugging message
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 09/14] module: Move signature type check out of mod_check_sig()
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 07/14] module: Make module authentication usable without MODULE_SIG
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 08/14] module: Move authentication logic into dedicated new file
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE122d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE93d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE135d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE136d [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 15/17] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 13/17] module: Report signature type to users
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 17/17] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 11/17] module: Move lockdown check into generic module loader
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 08/17] module: Deduplicate signature extraction
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 12/17] module: Move signature splitting up
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 10/17] module: Move integrity checks into dedicated function
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 04/17] module: Make mod_verify_sig() static
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 09/17] module: Make module loading policy usable without MODULE_SIG
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE129d [PATCH v4 05/17] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE241d [PATCH v4] ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature
  2025-11-19 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• STALE241d [PATCH v3] ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature
  2025-11-19 · Coiby Xu <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.

• STALE135d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  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.

• STALE129d [PATCH v4 17/17] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE136d [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE93d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH v5 04/14] module: Drop pointless debugging message
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>