drbd driver · Supported

Maintainers

• M Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
• M Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
• M Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/
• F drivers/block/drbd/
• F include/linux/drbd*
• F lib/lru_cache.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: reject oversized DataReply before signed conversion
  2026-06-30 10:59 · 0 replies in 7d · Tianchu Chen <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-09

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: reject oversized DataReply before signed conversion
  2026-06-30 · Tianchu Chen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix local_cnt refcount leak on ascw allocation failure in _drbd_set_state
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix double put_ldev in receive_SyncParam on fifo_alloc failure
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in _drbd_set_state()
  2026-06-25 · Ваторопин Андрей <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH 14/27] drbd: Enable lock context analysis
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 13/27] drbd: Annotate drbd_bm_{lock,unlock}()
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 02/27] drbd: Remove "extern" from function declarations
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 12/27] drbd: Convert drbd_req_state() to unconditional locking
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 11/27] drbd: Split drbd_req_state()
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 10/27] drbd: Make a mutex_unlock() call unconditional
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 09/27] drbd: Split drbd_nl_get_connections_dumpit()
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 05/27] drbd: Remove the 'local' lock context
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 08/27] drbd: Pass 'resource' directly to complete_conflicting_writes()
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 07/27] drbd: Move two declarations
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 06/27] drbd: Simplify the bitmap locking functions.
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 04/27] drbd: Remove the get_ldev_if_state() macro
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 03/27] drbd: Retain one _get_ldev_if_state() implementation
  2026-06-09 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH v2 01/14] drbd: Open-code transfer log list walk
  2026-06-09 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH] drbd: remove unused drbd_nl_mcgrps[] array
  2026-05-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH] drbd: fix false positive resync throttling in drbd_rs_c_min_rate_throttle
  2026-05-13 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH v3 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• COLD54d [PATCH v3 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: serialize UUID snapshot in drbd_md_write()
  2026-05-04 · Ziyu Zhang <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH 4/4] drbd: switch from genl_magic macros to YNL-generated code
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• COLD59d [PATCH 1/4] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE86d [PATCH v3] drbd: use get_random_u64() where appropriate
  2026-04-05 · David Carlier <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH] drbd: remove DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY flag handling
  2026-04-03 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE81d [PATCH 20/20] drbd: remove BROKEN for DRBD
  2026-03-27 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>

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.

• STALE111d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/4] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2026-03-04 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE99d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH] drbd: Balance RCU calls in drbd_adm_dump_devices()
  2026-03-26 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-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.

• STALE195d [RFC 07/12] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: admin-guide: blockdev: replace zone_capacity with zone_capacity_mb when creating devices
  2025-12-15 · Yongpeng Yang <hidden>
• STALE193d [RFC v2 05/17] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE193d [RFC v2 11/17] bio: bio_set_status from non-zero errno
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE193d [RFC v2 17/17] bio: add bio_endio_status
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE105d [PATCH 03/62] drbd: Balance RCU calls in drbd_adm_dump_devices()
  2026-02-23 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH 03/62] drbd: Balance RCU calls in drbd_adm_dump_devices()
  2026-02-23 · Bart Van Assche <hidden>
• STALE114d [PATCH 4/5] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE114d [PATCH 5/5] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 4/6] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-03-11 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>