module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module_param.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies Linux 6.6.145
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM1d Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d Re: Linux 6.6.145
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.1.4
  2026-07-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.39
  2026-07-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.96
  2026-07-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] module: fix UAF and GPF in idempotent_init_module via heap allocation
  2026-07-17 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.93
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 083/307] remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD54d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 6.1 455/969] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE63d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD57d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.141
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH 6.6 031/508] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH 6.12 041/666] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH 6.18 068/957] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE64d [PATCH 7.0 0083/1146] module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2] module: decompress: check return value of module_extend_max_pages()
  2026-05-18 · Andrii Kuchmenko <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH v2] module: decompress: check return value of module_extend_max_pages()
  2026-05-18 · Andrii Kuchmenko <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH] module: decompress: check return value of module_extend_max_pages()
  2026-05-17 · Andrii Kuchmenko <hidden>
• STALE87d Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: Set mod->async_probe_requested if needed
  2026-04-28 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• STALE65d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.15] module: Override -EEXIST module return
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.168
  2026-04-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE102d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 014/312] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-04-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE114d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.21
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.131
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 039/309] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE137d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE148d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE142d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.7
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE133d Re: Linux 6.18.17
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.131
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.21
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE114d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>