live patching · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• M Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
• M Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch
• F Documentation/livepatch/
• F arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
• F include/linux/livepatch*.h
• F kernel/livepatch/
• F kernel/module/livepatch.c
• F samples/livepatch/
• F scripts/livepatch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/12] LoongArch: Add livepatch build (KLP) support
  2026-07-07 07:22 · 2 replies in 7d · George Guo <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] livepatch/klp-build: Fix wrong index in error cleanup loop
  2026-07-01 06:07 · 0 replies in 7d · Shihao Ren <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
  3 attestations (1 Acked-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-28
• Kexin Liu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-28
• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-28

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on live-patching (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 04/12] livepatch/klp-build: build LoongArch with -fPIC to keep GOT-indirect symbol references
  2026-07-07 · George Guo <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 03/12] livepatch/klp-build: disable direct-extern-access for LoongArch to fix kernel panic
  2026-07-07 · George Guo <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] livepatch/klp-build: Fix wrong index in error cleanup loop
  2026-07-01 · Shihao Ren <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 RESEND 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] livepatch: Fix NULL pointer dereference in klp_find_func()
  2026-06-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] livepatch: Fix NULL pointer dereference in klp_find_func()
  2026-06-23 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] livepatch: Fix NULL pointer dereference in klp_find_func()
  2026-06-23 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v3 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-09 · Wang Han <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 4/8] livepatch/klp-build: build LoongArch with -fPIC to keep GOT-indirect symbol references
  2026-06-08 · George Guo <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 3/8] livepatch/klp-build: disable direct-extern-access for LoongArch to fix kernel panic
  2026-06-08 · George Guo <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add test for function conflict across replace_sets
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 6/7] selftests/livepatch: Add test for state ID conflict across replace_sets
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 5/7] selftests/livepatch: Update tests for replace_set
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 4/7] livepatch: Deprecate stack_order
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 3/7] livepatch: Support scoped atomic replace using replace_set
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 2/7] livepatch: Move klp_find_func() into core.h
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v3 1/7] livepatch: Fix NULL pointer dereference in klp_find_func()
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD18d Re: [PATCH 1/4] selftests: livepatch: Introduce _remove_mod function
  2026-06-05 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2] selftests/livepatch: fix resource leak in test_klp_syscall init error path
  2026-06-04 · Rui Qi <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH 5/8] LoongArch: fix kernel panic with -fPIC for same-compilation-unit symbol references
  2026-06-04 · George Guo <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH 4/8] livepatch/klp-build: disable direct-extern-access for LoongArch to fix kernel panic
  2026-06-04 · George Guo <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH] selftests/livepatch: fix resource leak in test_klp_syscall init error path
  2026-06-02 · Rui Qi <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH v2 4/4] selftests/livepatch: Update tests for replace_set
  2026-05-29 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH v2 3/4] livepatch: deprecate stack_order
  2026-05-29 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH v2 2/4] livepatch: Support scoped atomic replace using replace_set
  2026-05-29 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH v2 1/4] livepatch: Make klp_find_func() non-static
  2026-05-29 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-28 · Wang Han <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-27 · Wang Han <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.

• COLD47d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH] livepatch: Improve the accuracy of symbol search
  2026-05-16 · luhao <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE154d [PATCH 1/5] objtool/klp: limit parent .git directory search
  2026-01-30 · Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
• STALE147d [PATCH v2 5/5] livepatch/klp-build: provide friendlier error messages
  2026-02-04 · Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
• STALE138d [PATCH 8/8] livepatch: Add tests for klp-build toolchain
  2026-02-12 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 04/13] livepatch/klp-build: switch to GNU patch and recountdiff
  2026-02-17 · Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 8/8] livepatch: Add tests for klp-build toolchain
  2026-02-19 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE97d [PATCH 6/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of stack_order attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE97d [PATCH 7/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of patched attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE99d [PATCH v2 12/12] klp-build: Support cross-compilation
  2026-03-17 · Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [RFC PATCH 4/4] livepatch: Implement livepatch hybrid mode
  2026-04-02 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH v2 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>