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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-doc touching this subsystem.

• landlock: Add READ_METADATA and WRITE_METADATA access rights v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 -next 03/18] fs: pass struct path to xattr helpers 2026-10-27
  • [PATCH v3 -next 06/18] LSM: pass struct path and struct file to the inode xattr hooks 2026-10-27
  2026-10-27 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst 2026-10-19 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] blk-mq: add direct dispatch support for mq-deadline 2026-10-17 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• landlock: Add READ_METADATA and WRITE_METADATA access rights v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 -next 03/18] fs: pass struct path to xattr helpers 2026-10-15
  2026-10-15 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v2] ublk: refuse to go live after an io command was canceled 2026-10-06 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• [PATCH] ublk: refuse to go live after an io command was canceled 2026-10-05 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• block: delay support for error injection v3 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [v3 for-next 1/3] block: Reject unknown status tags in error injection rules 2026-09-28
  • [v3 for-next 2/3] block: allow error injection rules to delay bios 2026-09-28
  • [v3 for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delay feature 2026-09-28
  2026-09-28 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• ublk: fix dispatch to canceled io commands v1 · 9 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/9] ublk: keep queue canceling over canceled commands 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 2/9] ublk: clear ub->canceling with the queue's own flag 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 3/9] ublk: publish io->cmd under io->lock in the commit paths 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 4/9] ublk: read the io under io->lock in ublk_cancel_cmd() 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 5/9] ublk: complete a command canceled before it was marked from its issuer 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 6/9] ublk: split ublk_claim_cmd() out of ublk_cancel_cmd() 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 7/9] ublk: mark queues and command in one cancel_mutex hold 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 8/9] ublk: claim commands under ub->mutex in ublk_stop_dev() 2026-09-28
  • [PATCH 9/9] ublk: refuse to go live over canceled io commands 2026-09-28
  2026-09-28 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• landlock: Add READ_METADATA and WRITE_METADATA access rights rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC -next 03/12] fs: pass struct path to xattr helpers 2026-09-24
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion v4 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 3 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/3] blk-cgroup: use a request_queue rhashtable for blkg lookup 2026-09-20
  • [PATCH v4 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg 2026-09-20
  • [PATCH v4 3/3] blk-cgroup: move async bio punt state to blkcg 2026-09-20
  2026-09-20 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion v3 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] blk-cgroup: use a request_queue rhashtable for blkg lookup 2026-08-18
  • [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg 2026-08-18
  • [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] blk-cgroup: move async bio punt state to blkcg 2026-08-18
  2026-09-18 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion v2 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] blk-cgroup: wait for old blkgs to leave queue before disk rebind 2026-08-11
  • [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] blk-cgroup: use a request_queue rhashtable for blkg lookup 2026-08-11
  • [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg 2026-08-11
  • [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] blk-cgroup: move async bio punt state to blkcg 2026-08-11
  2026-09-13 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• blk: honor isolcpus configuration v16 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 7 of 9 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v16 6/9] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=managed_irq_strict is enabled 2026-09-10
  • [PATCH v16 7/9] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs 2026-09-10
  2026-09-10 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• ARM: deprecated platform removal v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 03/13] ARM: remove riscpc 2026-09-08
  2026-09-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• block: delay support for error injection v2 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [v2 for-next 1/3] block: reject unknown status tags in error injection rules 2026-08-30
  • [v2 for-next 2/3] block: allow error injection rules to delay bios 2026-08-30
  • [v2 for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delays 2026-08-30
  2026-08-30 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• block: delay support for error injection rfc · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC for-next 1/3] block: reject unknown status tags in error injection rules 2026-08-27
  • [RFC for-next 2/3] block: allow error injection rules to delay bios 2026-08-27
  • [RFC for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delays 2026-08-27
  2026-08-27 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v1 1/3] blk-cgroup: add helpers for bio cgroup state 2026-08-04
  • [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg 2026-08-04
  • [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] blk-cgroup: move async bio punt state to blkcg 2026-08-04
  2026-08-23 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH v2] docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst 2026-08-19 · Jenson Johnathon Reggentin <hidden>
• [PATCH] docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst 2026-08-19 · Jenson Johnathon Reggentin <hidden>
• [PATCH] Documentation: block: fix the sector 0 error injection example 2026-08-15 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• LANDED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 1/1] block: rename bi_bvec_done 2026-08-06 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• More fscrypt and blk-crypto doc updates and code removals v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 5/6] blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported() 2026-07-18
  • [PATCH 6/6] blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation 2026-07-18
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• mm/zram: route block swap I/O through swap_ops v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 2/3] mm/zram: handle swap read/write via swap_ops 2026-06-14
  • [PATCH 3/3] mm/swap: route slot free notifications through swap_ops 2026-06-14
  2026-06-14 · Jianyue Wu <hidden>
• LANDED · 2 reviews, 2 by maintainers [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection 2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 3 reviews, 3 by maintainers [PATCH 3/4] block: add a str_to_blk_op helper 2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 3 reviews, 3 by maintainers [PATCH 2/4] block: add a "tag" for block status codes 2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 4 reviews, 4 by maintainers [PATCH 1/4] block: add a macro to initialize the status table 2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• REVIEWED · 2 reviews, 2 by maintainers [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection 2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• REVIEWED · 3 reviews, 3 by maintainers [PATCH 3/4] block: add a str_to_blk_op helper 2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• REVIEWED · 3 reviews, 3 by maintainers [PATCH 2/4] block: add a "tag" for block status codes 2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>