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Latest 24 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-ext4 touching this subsystem.

• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries (Part 5/7) v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 30 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 24/30] ipc: let procfs own the seq_file of the sysvipc files 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH RFC 22/27] ipc: let procfs own the seq_file of the sysvipc files 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• UUID and GUID user and group ids (*_r system calls) v2 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [RFC PATCH v2 29/41] signal: report the sender's UUID or GUID uid in si_uid_r 2026-10-21
  • [RFC PATCH v2 30/41] ipc: add IPC_STAT_R and IPC_SET_R 2026-10-21
  2026-10-21 · Jan Koester <hidden>
• fs: fix a range of UAFs during rcu pathwalk caused by non-rcu frees v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 5/8] ipc: drop the mqueue mount with kern_unmount() on setup failure 2026-10-09
  2026-10-09 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them v2 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v2 06/13] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare 2026-01-22
  • [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t 2026-01-22
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them resend · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare 2026-01-19
  • [PATCH RESEND 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t 2026-01-19
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them v1 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare 2026-01-19
  • [PATCH 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t 2026-01-19
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 2 reviews, 2 by maintainers [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation 2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• REVIEWED · 2 reviews, 2 by maintainers [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation 2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation 2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation 2025-11-05 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• convert the majority of file systems to mmap_prepare v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 01/10] mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare 2025-06-16
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v6 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 39 of 40 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 05/39] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 14/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2021-01-21
  • [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-21
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v5 · 3 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v5 11/42] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 21/42] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2021-01-12
  • [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-12
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v4 · 3 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v4 11/40] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 20/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-12-04
  • [PATCH v4 31/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2020-12-04
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• idmapped mounts v3 · 3 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v3 09/38] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 18/38] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-11-28
  • [PATCH v3 29/38] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts 2020-11-28
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• fs: idmapped mounts v2 · 4 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v2 09/39] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 18/39] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 29/39] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts 2020-11-15
  • [PATCH v2 31/39] audit: handle idmapped mounts 2020-11-15
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• fs: idmapped mounts v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 28/34] audit: handle idmapped mounts 2020-10-29
  2020-10-29 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• fs, ext4: Physical blocks placement hint for fallocate(0): fallocate2(). TP defrag. rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH RFC 1/5] fs: Add new argument to file_operations::fallocate() 2020-02-26
  2020-02-26 · Kirill Tkhai <hidden>
• [PATCH 14/14] mm: turn on vm_fault_t type checking 2018-05-16 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• fs: enhanced writeback error reporting with errseq_t (pile #1) v8 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 9 of 18 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v8 01/18] fs: remove call_fsync helper function 2017-06-29
  2017-06-29 · jlayton@kernel.org
• fs: enhanced writeback error reporting with errseq_t (pile #1) v7 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 7 of 22 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v7 01/22] fs: remove call_fsync helper function 2017-06-16
  2017-06-16 · Jeff Layton <hidden>
• Introduce new O_HOT and O_COLD flags rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH, RFC 2/3] fs: propagate the open_flags structure down to the low-level fs's create() 2012-04-19
  2012-04-19 · Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
• Extended file stat functions [ver #6] v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 09/18] xstat: Make special system filesystems return FS_SPECIAL_FL [ver #6] 2010-07-15
  2010-07-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>