bcache (block layer cache) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Coly Li <colyli@fygo.io>
• M Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

Paths

• F drivers/md/bcache/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d [RFC PATCH v1 08/17] bcache: avoid sleeping blkg association from locked paths
  2026-07-04 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [RFC PATCH v1 06/17] blk-cgroup: support non-blocking bio association
  2026-07-04 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• STALE129d [PATCH v2] bcache: fix cached_dev.sb_bio use-after-free and crash
  2026-03-22 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] bcache: fix cached_dev.sb_bio use-after-free and crash
  2026-03-22 · <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/4] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2026-03-04 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE191d Re: [PATCH] Revert "bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io"
  2026-01-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH] Revert "bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io"
  2026-01-13 · <hidden>
• STALE220d [RFC v2 05/17] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE220d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [RFC v2 03/17] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE232d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v7 1/2] bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-12-09 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE222d [RFC 07/12] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE222d [RFC 02/12] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE233d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 1/3] bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-12-07 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE235d [PATCH v5 1/3] bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-12-04 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE237d [PATCH v4 1/3] bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-12-01 · zhangshida <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] bcache: call bio_endio() to replace directly calling bio->bi_end_io()
  2025-11-30 · <hidden>
• STALE235d [PATCH v3 1/9] md: bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-11-29 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE234d [PATCH v2 03/12] md: bcache: fix improper use of bi_end_io
  2025-11-28 · zhangshida <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 9/9] bcache: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 8/9] bcache: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 7/9] bcache: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] bcache: remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 5/9] bcache: reduce gc latency by processing less nodes and sleep less time
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 3/9] bcache: drop discard sysfs interface
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 2/9] bcache: remove discard code from alloc.c
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 1/9] bcache: get rid of discard code from journal
  2025-11-13 · <hidden>
• STALE321d [PATCH 2/2] block: remove the bi_inline_vecs variable sized array from struct bio
  2025-09-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE321d [PATCH 1/2] block: add a bio_init_inline helper
  2025-09-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE392d LANDED [PATCH] bcache: Use a folio
  2025-07-02 · colyli@kernel.org
• STALE428d LANDED [PATCH 3/3] bcache: reserve more RESERVE_BTREE buckets to prevent allocator hang
  2025-05-27 · colyli@kernel.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.

• STALE138d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/4] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2026-03-04 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> · 1 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 [PATCH] bcache: fix cached_dev.sb_bio use-after-free and crash
  2026-03-22 · <hidden>