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Latest 21 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-security-module touching this subsystem.

• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 3 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-09-11
  • [PATCH v3 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date 2026-09-11
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-07-21
  • [PATCH v2 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date 2026-07-21
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-07-08
  • [PATCH 2/2] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date 2026-07-08
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking v5 · 9 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 14 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 04/14] module: Drop pointless debugging message 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 05/14] module: Make mod_verify_sig() static 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 06/14] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 07/14] module: Make module authentication usable without MODULE_SIG 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 08/14] module: Move authentication logic into dedicated new file 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 09/14] module: Move signature type check out of mod_check_sig() 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 10/14] module: Prepare for additional module authentication mechanisms 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 12/14] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking 2026-05-05
  • [PATCH v5 14/14] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping 2026-05-05
  2026-05-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• kthread, exit: clean up kernel thread exit paths v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit() 2026-03-10
  • [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit() 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• treewide: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check - refactor v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 61 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check 2026-03-10
  • [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: REVIEWED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name 2026-03-05
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name 2026-03-05
  2026-03-05 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• modules: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 4/8] module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name 2026-03-02
  2026-03-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking v4 · 10 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 04/17] module: Make mod_verify_sig() static 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 05/17] module: Switch load_info::len to size_t 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 08/17] module: Deduplicate signature extraction 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 09/17] module: Make module loading policy usable without MODULE_SIG 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 10/17] module: Move integrity checks into dedicated function 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 11/17] module: Move lockdown check into generic module loader 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 12/17] module: Move signature splitting up 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 13/17] module: Report signature type to users 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 15/17] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking 2026-01-13
  • [PATCH v4 17/17] kbuild: make CONFIG_MODULE_HASHES compatible with module stripping 2026-01-13
  2026-01-13 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH v4] ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature 2025-11-19 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• [PATCH v3] ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature 2025-11-19 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] lsm,ima: new LSM hook security_kernel_module_read_file to access decompressed kernel module 2025-10-31 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• module: Optionally use .platform keyring for signatures verification rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 1/1] module: Make use of platform keyring for module signature verify 2025-06-02
  2025-06-02 · Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
• Introducing the Loadpol LSM rfc · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 1/9] LSM: Introduce a new hook: security_kernel_module_load 2025-05-21
  • [RFC PATCH 7/9] module: expose the list of blacklisted modules 2025-05-21
  2025-05-21 · Simon THOBY <hidden>
• module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking v3 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 5/9] module: Make module loading policy usable without MODULE_SIG 2025-04-29
  • [PATCH v3 6/9] module: Move integrity checks into dedicated function 2025-04-29
  • [PATCH v3 7/9] module: Move lockdown check into generic module loader 2025-04-29
  • [PATCH v3 9/9] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking 2025-04-29
  2025-04-29 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking v2 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 2/6] module: Make module loading policy usable without MODULE_SIG 2025-01-20
  • [PATCH v2 3/6] module: Move integrity checks into dedicated function 2025-01-20
  • [PATCH v2 4/6] module: Move lockdown check into generic module loader 2025-01-20
  • [PATCH v2 6/6] module: Introduce hash-based integrity checking 2025-01-20
  2025-01-20 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• integrity: Introduce the Integrity Digest Cache v6 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 02/15] module: Introduce ksys_finit_module() 2024-11-19
  2024-11-19 · Roberto Sassu <hidden>
• kmod/umh: a few fixes v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 5 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/5] selftests: kmod: Use variable NAME in kmod_test_0001() 2020-06-10
  • [PATCH 3/5] test_kmod: Avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type() 2020-06-10
  • [PATCH 5/5] selftests: simplify kmod failure value 2020-06-10
  2020-06-10 · Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• Improve Module autoloading infrastructure v5 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 next 1/5] modules:capabilities: add request_module_cap() 2017-11-27
  2017-11-27 · Djalal Harouni <hidden>
• modules: automatic module loading restrictions v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 next 1/3] modules:capabilities: allow __request_module() to take a capability argument 2017-05-22
  2017-05-22 · Djalal Harouni <hidden>