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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-06
• Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-06
• Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-31

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-08-06 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD23d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-31 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD29d [RFC PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-07-30 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 7.1 0132/2077] klp-build: Fix patch cleanup on interrupt
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 7.1 0131/2077] klp-build: Fix checksum comparison for changed offsets
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 7.1 0130/2077] klp-build: Fix hang on out-of-date .config
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE149d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE144d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.19 009/342] livepatch/klp-build: Fix inconsistent kernel version
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE218d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 5.10 161/451] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE224d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 5.15 215/554] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE230d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE229d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 6.1 235/634] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 6.6 314/737] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.64
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE199d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 6.12 019/567] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2026-01-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.3
  2026-01-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE236d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 6.18 024/430] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2025-12-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
  2025-12-05 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE799d Re: Linux 5.10.220
  2024-06-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE766d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.10 193/770] kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE766d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.10 192/770] module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1013d Re: Linux 5.15.139
  2023-11-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.201
  2023-11-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1014d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 170/244] livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols()
  2023-11-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1008d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 123/191] livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols()
  2023-11-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1015d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1 264/379] livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols()
  2023-11-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1015d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6 431/603] livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols()
  2023-11-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE149d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>