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• F Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE382d [PATCH v2] fs/proc/vmcore: a few cleanups for vmcore_add_device_dump
  2025-06-26 · Su Hui <hidden>
• STALE385d [PATCH] fs/proc/vmcore: a few cleanups for vmcore_add_device_dump
  2025-06-23 · Su Hui <hidden>
• STALE539d Bug: broken /proc/kcore in 6.13
  2025-01-17 · Alexandre Ferrieux <hidden>
• STALE605d [PATCH] fs/proc/task_mmu: prevent integer overflow in pagemap_scan_get_args()
  2024-11-14 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE620d [PATCH v2] sysctl: Reduce dput(child) calls in proc_sys_fill_cache()
  2024-10-23 · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• STALE620d [PATCH] sysctl: Reduce dput(child) calls in proc_sys_fill_cache()
  2024-09-26 · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• STALE760d [PATCH] fs/proc/task_mmu: fix uninitialized variable in pagemap_pmd_range()
  2024-06-13 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE761d LANDED: 5 (5M) [PATCH RESEND 3/3] proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  2024-06-08 · Christophe JAILLET <hidden>
• STALE820d [PATCH] proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  2024-01-15 · Christophe JAILLET <hidden>
• STALE1083d [PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix signedness bug in read_from_oldmem()
  2023-07-25 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  2022-09-09 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1943d [PATCH] proc: fix incorrect pde_is_permanent check
  2021-03-18 · Colin King <hidden>
• STALE2198d [PATCH v2] proc/fd: Remove unnecessary {files, f_flags, file} initialization in seq_show()
  2020-06-12 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RESEND trivial] fs: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-21 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fs/proc: Use seq_putc() in show_console_dev()
  2018-01-13 · SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
• STALE3275d [PATCH] proc: Remove cast from memory allocation
  2017-02-22 · Tobin C. Harding <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 02/15] procfs: Remove unnecessary cast proc alloc codes
  2015-04-23 · Firo Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 02/15] proc: Remove unnecessary cast of allocation return value
  2015-04-23 · Firo Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 03/16] Clean up unnecessary void* pointer cast.
  2015-04-22 · Firo Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fs: proc: inode.c: remove unnecessary type cast
  2015-02-11 · Bas Peters <hidden>
• STALE3379d [PATCH 1/1] fs-proc: One function call less in proc_sys_lookup() after error detection
  2014-11-18 · SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [patch 2/2] sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
  2012-01-30 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [patch 1/2] sysctl: remove an unused variable
  2012-01-30 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [patch] procfs: update proc_show_options() to new API
  2012-01-04 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE5595d [PATCH] ksm: add vm_stat and meminfo entry to reflect pte mapping to ksm pages
  2011-02-26 · Nai Xia <hidden>
• STALE5942d [patch] proc: copy_to_user() returns unsigned
  2010-04-06 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE5957d [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list
  2010-03-22 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE6176d [PATCH][RFC] security: constify seq_operations
  2009-08-11 · James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH]procfs: Fix checkpatch.pl errors in generic.c
  2009-04-13 · Mateusz Mandera <hidden>
• STALE6297d [PATCH 40/56] proc: Remove void casts
  2009-04-08 · Jack Stone <hidden>