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Latest 22 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-api touching this subsystem.

• UUID and GUID user and group ids (*_r system calls) v2 · 1 matching patch

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  • [RFC PATCH v2 37/41] ovl: allow UUID and GUID owners when the upper layer does 2026-10-21
  2026-10-21 · Jan Koester <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH] fs: allow opening overlayfs/erofs layers through O_ALT 2026-07-15 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• [PATCH] ovl: add ioctls to retrieve layer file descriptors 2026-07-08 · Giuseppe Scrivano <hidden>
• vfs: recall-only directory delegations for knfsd v6 · 6 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v6 06/17] vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v6 07/17] vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v6 09/17] vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create() 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v6 10/17] vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directory 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v6 11/17] vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory 2025-11-11
  • [PATCH v6 12/17] vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dir 2025-11-11
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• Fix to EOPNOTSUPP double conversion in ioctl_setflags() v1 · 1 matching patch

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  • [PATCH 1/2] Revert "fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP" 2025-10-08
  2025-10-08 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls v6 · 1 matching patch

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  • [PATCH v6 4/6] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP 2025-06-30
  2025-06-30 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls v5 · 1 matching patch

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  • [PATCH v5 5/7] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP 2025-05-13
  2025-05-13 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• [PATCH v5 5/7] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP 2025-05-12 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v6 · 10 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v6 04/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 05/39] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 06/40] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 07/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 08/40] acl: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 09/40] xattr: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 13/40] namei: introduce struct renamedata 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 14/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 28/40] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v5 · 10 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v5 10/42] capability: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 11/42] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 12/42] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 13/42] attr: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 14/42] acl: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 16/42] xattr: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 20/42] namei: introduce struct renamedata 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 21/42] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 39/42] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v4 · 10 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v4 10/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 11/40] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 12/40] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 13/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 14/40] acl: handle idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 15/40] xattr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 19/40] namei: introduce struct renamedata 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 20/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 31/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 37/40] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v3 · 10 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v3 08/38] capability: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 09/38] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 10/38] inode: add idmapped mount aware init and permission helpers 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 11/38] attr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 12/38] acl: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 13/38] xattr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 17/38] namei: introduce struct renamedata 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 18/38] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 29/38] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 35/38] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• fs: idmapped mounts v2 · 10 matching patches

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  • [PATCH v2 08/39] capability: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 09/39] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 10/39] inode: add idmapped mount aware init and permission helpers 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 11/39] attr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 12/39] acl: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 13/39] xattr: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 17/39] namei: introduce struct renamedata 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 18/39] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 29/39] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 36/39] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• fs: idmapped mounts v1 · 3 matching patches

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  • [PATCH 18/34] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-10-29
  • [PATCH 32/34] overlayfs: handle idmapped lower directories 2020-10-29
  • [PATCH 33/34] overlayfs: handle idmapped merged mounts 2020-10-29
  2020-10-29 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• zone-append support in io-uring and aio v4 · 1 matching patch

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  • [PATCH v4 2/6] fs: change ki_complete interface to support 64bit ret2 2020-07-24
  2020-07-24 · Kanchan Joshi <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH v4 2/4] fs: add AT_LINK_REPLACE flag for linkat() which replaces the target 2020-01-29 · Omar Sandoval <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH v4 1/4] fs: add flags argument to i_op->link() 2020-01-29 · Omar Sandoval <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 3/3] fs: let filldir_t return bool instead of an error code 2019-01-18 · Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
• [RFC PATCH 2/2] fs: Grant CAP_TRUSTED rw access to trusted xattrs 2017-10-21 · Nicolas Belouin <hidden>
• fs: add AT_REPLACE flag for linkat() v2 · 1 matching patch

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  • [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] fs: add AT_REPLACE flag for linkat() which replaces the target 2017-03-21
  2017-03-21 · Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
• fs: add AT_REPLACE flag for linkat() rfc · 1 matching patch

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  • [RFC PATCH 1/3] fs: add AT_REPLACE flag for linkat() which replaces the target 2016-11-22
  2016-11-22 · Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
• [PATCH] overlayfs: move super block magic number to magic.h 2015-11-04 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>