kernfs · Supported

Maintainers

• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• M Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Paths

• F fs/kernfs/
• F include/linux/kernfs.h

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-21

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on driver-core, ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] kernfs: fix deadlock in epoll_ctl by waking pollfree
  2026-06-21 · Sainath Manda <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] kernfs: simplify kernfs_name_hash()
  2026-06-17 · Dmitry Antipov <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] kernfs: use nofail allocation for global locks
  2026-06-08 · Ruoyu Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] kernfs: Replace strcpy(s, "../") with memcpy(s, "../", 4)
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH] kernfs: protect of->kn access in fop_read_iter/fop_mmap
  2026-04-27 · Ravineet Singh <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH] kernfs: fix suspicious RCU usage in kernfs_put()
  2026-04-16 · Conor Kotwasinski <hidden>
• STALE123d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v5 2/3] kernfs: Send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED
  2026-02-25 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE123d [PATCH v5 1/3] kernfs: Don't set_nlink for directories being removed
  2026-02-25 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE116d [PATCH v4 2/3] kernfs: Send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED
  2026-02-20 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE116d [PATCH v4 1/3] kernfs: Don't set_nlink for directories being removed
  2026-02-20 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE129d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v3 2/3] kernfs: send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED on file deletion
  2026-02-18 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE129d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v3 1/3] kernfs: allow passing fsnotify event types
  2026-02-18 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 2/3] kernfs: send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED on file deletion
  2026-02-12 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 1/3] kernfs: allow passing fsnotify event types
  2026-02-12 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE138d [PATCH 2/3] kernfs: send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED on file deletion
  2026-02-10 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE138d [PATCH 1/3] kernfs: allow passing fsnotify event types
  2026-02-10 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>

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.

• STALE138d [PATCH 1/3] kernfs: allow passing fsnotify event types
  2026-02-10 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE116d [PATCH v4 1/3] kernfs: Don't set_nlink for directories being removed
  2026-02-20 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• STALE123d [PATCH v5 1/3] kernfs: Don't set_nlink for directories being removed
  2026-02-25 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>