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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC -next 00/12] landlock: Add READ_METADATA and WRITE_METADATA access rights
  2026-09-24 10:23 · 1 reply in 7d · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 01/14] fixes for vfs_lookup_open, and integration with nfsd
  2026-09-23 04:08 · 2 replies in 7d · NeilBrown <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 1/5] netfs: clear post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via write
  2026-09-21 23:08 · 0 replies in 7d · Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-14

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC -next 12/12] Documentation: Update landlock doc for metadata rights
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] nfsd: switch NFS4 OPEN to use vfs_lookup_open()
  2026-09-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 1/5] netfs: clear post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via write
  2026-09-21 · Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 01/14] VFS: revise and expand documentation for atomic_open.
  2026-09-19 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v15 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-09-14 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD20d [PATCH] Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo "asser" in comment
  2026-09-04 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH v11 26/36] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-09-02 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH v4 1/2] vfs: Allow filesystems with foreign owner IDs to override UID checks
  2026-09-02 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH 26/27] fs: port mnt_idmap() and file_mnt_idmap() to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 24/27] fs: port ->setattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 23/27] fs: port ->getattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 22/27] fs: port ->create() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 21/27] fs: port ->symlink() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 20/27] fs: port ->mkdir() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 19/27] fs: port ->rename() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 18/27] fs: port ->mknod() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 17/27] fs: port ->tmpfile() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 16/27] fs: port ->get_acl() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 15/27] fs: port ->set_acl() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 14/27] fs: port ->fileattr_set() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 13/27] fs: port xattr to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 12/27] fs: port ->permission() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] ksmbd: doc: update feature status
  2026-08-31 · Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH v10 29/35] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v10 03/35] cachefiles,netfs: sunset ondemand mode
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] ksmbd: doc: update RDMA feature support status
  2026-08-24 · Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
• COLD31d [PATCH 1/2] ksmbd: doc: update SMB3 multichannel support status
  2026-08-24 · Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
• COLD44d [PATCH v9 22/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-08-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH v9 14/26] cachefiles,netfs: sunset ondemand mode
  2026-08-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD45d [PATCH v8 21/25] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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.

• STALE184d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE181d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>