efi variable filesystem · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
• M Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Paths

• F fs/efivarfs/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 23 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4, ordered by date desc.

• STALE75d [PATCH 45/53] efivarfs: use d_alloc_name()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE189d 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>
• STALE212d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE215d [PATCH] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-05 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1523d [PATCH v2] fs: remove unnecessary conditional
  2022-04-08 · <hidden>
• STALE1913d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 06/40] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1913d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1967d [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1967d [PATCH v5 12/42] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2009d [PATCH v4 31/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2009d [PATCH v4 12/40] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2016d [PATCH v3 10/38] inode: add idmapped mount aware init and permission helpers
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2016d [PATCH v3 29/38] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2019d [PATCH v2 29/39] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2019d [PATCH v2 10/39] inode: add idmapped mount aware init and permission helpers
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2537d REVIEWED: 18 (17M) [PATCH 1/5] vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  2019-06-28 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2540d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 1/5] vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  2019-06-26 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2541d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 1/4] vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  2019-06-21 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2541d [PATCH 2/7] vfs: flush and wait for io when setting the immutable flag via SETFLAGS
  2019-06-21 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2546d [PATCH v2 1/4] vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  2019-06-12 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2546d [PATCH 2/6] vfs: flush and wait for io when setting the immutable flag via SETFLAGS
  2019-06-11 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2546d [PATCH 1/4] vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  2019-06-11 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>

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.

• STALE189d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-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.

• STALE75d [PATCH 45/53] efivarfs: use d_alloc_name()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>