kernel usermode helper

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Recent patches

Latest 23 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in netdev touching this subsystem.

• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v3 · 1 matching patch

  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
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.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
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.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
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• kthread, exit: clean up kernel thread exit paths v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit() 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table argument of sysctl handlers v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers 2024-04-23
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table argument of sysctl handlers v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers 2024-03-15
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays. v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays 2023-06-21
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 2 reviews, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code 2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code 2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code 2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• [PATCH] umh: fix memory leak on execve failure 2020-05-07 · Vincent Minet <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 6/6] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH net v4 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2019-01-08 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• [PATCH net v3 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2019-01-07 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• [PATCH net 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2018-12-30 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• Re: bpfilter causes a leftover kernel process v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 1/2] umh: Add command line to user mode helpers 2018-10-20
  2018-10-20 · Olivier Brunel <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next] umh: fix race condition 2018-06-07 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• bpfilter v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper 2018-05-22
  2018-05-22 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• bpfilter v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper 2018-05-03
  2018-05-03 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries 2018-03-06 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• net: add bpfilter rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH RFC 1/4] modules: allow insmod load regular elf binaries 2018-02-16
  2018-02-16 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>