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

Recent patches

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

• STALE108d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE103d 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>
• STALE177d 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>
• STALE183d 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>
• STALE189d 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>
• STALE188d 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>
• STALE152d 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>
• STALE158d 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>
• STALE195d 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>
• STALE758d Re: Linux 5.10.220
  2024-06-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE725d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.10 193/770] kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE725d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.10 192/770] module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE972d 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>
• STALE973d 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>
• STALE967d 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>
• STALE974d 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>
• STALE974d 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>
• STALE975d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.5 392/550] livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols()
  2023-11-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.75
  2022-10-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.150
  2022-10-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.4.220
  2022-10-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1362d Re: Linux 4.19.262
  2022-10-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 4.14.296
  2022-10-26 · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.3
  2026-01-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.64
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE189d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE108d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>