bpf [core] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
• M Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• R John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/bpf*
• F include/linux/filter.h
• F include/linux/tnum.h
• F kernel/bpf/core.c
• F kernel/bpf/dispatcher.c
• F kernel/bpf/mprog.c
• F kernel/bpf/syscall.c
• F kernel/bpf/tnum.c
• F kernel/bpf/trampoline.c
• F kernel/bpf/verifier.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 20 patches in this subsystem on linux-block, ordered by date desc.

• STALE82d [RFC v2 1/3] bpf: Add KF_SPIN_LOCK flag for kfuncs under bpf_spin_lock
  2026-05-03 · Kaitao cheng <hidden>
• STALE1247d [RFC v2 4/4] ublk_drv: add ebpf support
  2023-02-22 · Xiaoguang Wang <hidden>
• STALE1247d [RFC v2 1/4] bpf: add UBLK program type
  2023-02-22 · Xiaoguang Wang <hidden>
• STALE1248d [RFC 1/3] bpf: add UBLK program type
  2023-02-15 · Xiaoguang Wang <hidden>
• STALE1376d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1376d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1421d [RFC PATCH 2/2] capability: use new capable_or functionality
  2022-02-17 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE1693d LANDED: 6 (4M) [PATCH bpf v2] treewide: add missing includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency
  2021-12-02 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE1690d [PATCH bpf] treewide: add missing includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency
  2021-11-20 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2103d LANDED [RFC] treewide: cleanup unreachable breaks
  2020-10-17 · trix@redhat.com
• STALE2136d [RFC PATCH 1/4] bpf: add new prog_type BPF_PROG_TYPE_IO_FILTER
  2020-08-12 · Leah Rumancik <hidden>
• STALE2465d [PATCH] kernel: convert switch/case fallthrough comments to fallthrough;
  2019-10-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE2468d [RFC PATCH 1/2] block: add support for redirecting IO completion through eBPF
  2019-10-14 · Hou Tao <hidden>
• STALE3263d [patch net-next 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of int
  2017-08-16 · Chris Mi <hidden>

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.

• STALE82d [RFC v2 1/3] bpf: Add KF_SPIN_LOCK flag for kfuncs under bpf_spin_lock
  2026-05-03 · Kaitao cheng <hidden>