kernel usermode helper · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Paths

• F include/linux/umh.h
• F kernel/umh.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 27 patches in this subsystem on netdev, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE74d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE187d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE862d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE920d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE1187d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1562d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1578d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1582d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE2272d Re: linux-next: umh: fix processed error when UMH_WAIT_PROC is used seems to break linux bridge on s390x (bisected)
  2020-07-01 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE2272d Re: linux-next: umh: fix processed error when UMH_WAIT_PROC is used seems to break linux bridge on s390x (bisected)
  2020-06-26 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE2272d Re: linux-next: umh: fix processed error when UMH_WAIT_PROC is used seems to break linux bridge on s390x (bisected)
  2020-06-24 · Christian Borntraeger <hidden>
• STALE2272d Re: linux-next: umh: fix processed error when UMH_WAIT_PROC is used seems to break linux bridge on s390x (bisected)
  2020-06-24 · Christian Borntraeger <hidden>
• STALE2327d [PATCH] umh: fix memory leak on execve failure
  2020-05-07 · Vincent Minet <hidden>
• STALE2297d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
  2020-04-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2343d [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
  2020-04-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2345d [PATCH 6/6] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
  2020-04-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v4 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process
  2019-01-08 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• STALE2815d [PATCH net v3 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process
  2019-01-07 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• STALE2815d [PATCH net 1/4] umh: add exit routine for UMH process
  2018-12-30 · Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
• STALE2891d [PATCH 1/2] umh: Add command line to user mode helpers
  2018-10-20 · Olivier Brunel <hidden>
• STALE3028d [PATCH net-next] umh: fix race condition
  2018-06-07 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• STALE3043d [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper
  2018-05-22 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• STALE3056d [PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper
  2018-05-03 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• STALE3065d [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
  2018-03-06 · Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• STALE3133d [PATCH RFC 1/4] modules: allow insmod load regular elf binaries
  2018-02-16 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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.

• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>