9p file system · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org>
• M Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
• M Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
• R Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
• F fs/9p/
• F include/net/9p/
• F include/trace/events/9p.h
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_9p.h
• F net/9p/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE89d [PATCH 24/61] net/9p: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH 06/61] 9p: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE120d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 1/8] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH v2 069/110] 9p: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE132d [PATCH v2 016/110] 9p: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH 18/61] 9p: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE131d [PATCH 24/24] fs: remove simple_nosetlease()
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE223d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE246d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE249d [PATCH] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-05 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE257d REVIEWED: 17 (16M) [PATCH 02/10] 9p: don't opencode filemap_fdatawrite_range in v9fs_mmap_vm_close
  2025-10-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE273d [PATCH 02/10] 9p: don't opencode filemap_fdatawrite_range in v9fs_mmap_vm_close
  2025-10-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d [PATCH v7 04/14] Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-10-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE280d [PATCH v6 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-23 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE295d [PATCH v5 2/4] Convert the kernel to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v4 03/12] fs: mechanically convert most filesystems to use ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-16 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE302d [PATCH v3 3/4] convert all filesystems to use the new ->i_state accessors
  2025-09-11 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE347d LANDED [PATCH 09/10] fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE347d LANDED [PATCH 08/10] fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE910d [PATCH v6 2/9] 9p: Split ->weak_revalidate from ->revalidate
  2023-08-16 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE910d [PATCH v6 3/9] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-16 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1062d [PATCH v5 04/10] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-12 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1062d [PATCH v5 03/10] 9p: Split ->weak_revalidate from ->revalidate
  2023-08-12 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1028d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1049d [PATCH v6 1/7] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1091d [PATCH v5 1/8] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-13 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1093d [PATCH v7 2/2] mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache
  2023-06-28 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1126d [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-05-18 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE137d [PATCH 18/61] 9p: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 1/8] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>