kprobes · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
• F include/asm-generic/kprobes.h
• F include/linux/kprobes.h
• F kernel/kprobes.c
• F lib/tests/test_kprobes.c
• F samples/kprobes

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 00/13] rcu-tasks: build Tasks RCU on Tasks Trace readers in trampolines
  2026-09-15 13:17 · 1 reply in 7d · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v2 00/15] rcu-tasks: let preemption outside trampolines be a quiescent state
  2026-09-11 14:09 · 1 reply in 7d · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC 00/13] rcu-tasks: let preemption outside trampolines be a quiescent state
  2026-09-10 18:51 · 1 reply in 7d · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 04/13] kprobes: Expose the optprobe jump window to Tasks RCU
  2026-09-15 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v2 04/15] kprobes: Let Tasks RCU recognise tasks preempted in an optprobe jump window
  2026-09-11 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC 04/13] kprobes: Let Tasks RCU recognise tasks preempted in an optprobe jump window
  2026-09-10 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• COOLING10d LANDED [PATCH v14 03/14] kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU
  2026-08-30 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH v13 01/12] kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU
  2026-08-22 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v2] kprobes: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE for the enabled knob
  2026-08-18 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH] kprobes: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE for the enabled knob
  2026-08-18 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• COLD34d [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm64/kprobes: Make the entire Kprobe noinstr
  2026-08-13 · Hongyan Xia <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH] kprobes: Fix NULL pointer dereference in unregister_kretprobes()
  2026-08-05 · Luigi Rizzo <hidden>
• COLD48d [RFC PATCH bpf-next 2/3] kprobes: mark ftrace-based kprobe ops permanent
  2026-07-29 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD43d [RFC PATCH 9/9] arm64/debug: Mark debug exception helpers __always_inline
  2026-07-27 · Hongyan Xia <hidden>
• STALE77d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE87d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH] kprobes: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header file
  2026-06-19 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• STALE132d LANDED [PATCH] test_kprobes: clear kprobes between test runs
  2026-05-07 · Martin Kaiser <hidden>
• STALE133d LANDED [v2 PATCH] kprobes: skip non-symbol addresses in kprobe_add_ksym_blacklist()
  2026-05-06 · Jianpeng Chang <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH] kprobes: Remove dead child probes from aggrprobe list on module unload
  2026-04-29 · Shijia Hu <hidden>
• STALE141d [PATCH] kprobes: skip non-symbol addresses in kprobe_add_ksym_blacklist()
  2026-04-27 · Jianpeng Chang <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH] kprobes: Remove unneeded warnings from __arm_kprobe_ftrace()
  2026-03-04 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v4] kprobes: Use dedicated kthread for kprobe optimizer
  2026-01-29 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] kprobes: Use dedicated kthread for kprobe optimizer
  2026-01-21 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE240d LANDED [PATCH v3 1/1] kprobes: retry blocked optprobe in do_free_cleaned_kprobes
  2026-01-15 · hongao <hidden>
• STALE239d [PATCH v2] kprobes: Use dedicated kthread for kprobe optimizer
  2026-01-13 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE247d [PATCH] kprobes: Use dedicated kthread for kprobe optimizer
  2026-01-10 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE245d [[PATCH v2] 1/1] kprobes: retry pending optprobe after freeing blocker
  2025-12-10 · hongao <hidden>
• STALE282d [PATCH] kprobes: Call check_ftrace_location() on CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
  2025-12-05 · qingwei.hu <hidden>
• STALE287d LANDED [PATCH] kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed
  2025-12-03 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE288d Re: [PATCH] kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod modules after ftrace_disabled
  2025-11-27 · Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE288d [PATCH] kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod modules after ftrace_disabled
  2025-11-25 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE272d [PATCH v7 23/31] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-11-14 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>