proc sysctl · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• M Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>

Paths

• F fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
• F include/linux/sysctl.h
• F kernel/sysctl*
• F tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/*
• F lib/test_sysctl.c
• F scripts/check-sysctl-docs

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 27 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4, ordered by date desc.

• STALE114d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE914d [PATCH v6 3/9] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-16 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1067d [PATCH v5 04/10] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-12 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1033d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1054d [PATCH v6 1/7] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1096d [PATCH v5 1/8] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-13 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1131d [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-05-18 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1952d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 07/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1952d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1952d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 11/40] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2006d [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2006d [PATCH v5 13/42] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2006d [PATCH v5 18/42] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2049d [PATCH v4 31/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2049d [PATCH v4 17/40] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2049d [PATCH v4 13/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2055d [PATCH v3 15/38] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2055d [PATCH v3 11/38] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2055d [PATCH v3 29/38] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v2 29/39] fs: add helpers for idmap mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v2 15/39] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v2 11/39] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE3986d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH V1 Resend 07/10] fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  2015-08-12 · Viresh Kumar <hidden>
• STALE3995d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH V1 Resend 08/11] fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  2015-08-10 · Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
• STALE3995d [PATCH 12/15] fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  2015-07-31 · Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
• STALE5203d [RFC][PATCH 2/3] vfs: add security check for _NO_HIDE_STALE flag
  2012-04-17 · Zheng Liu <hidden>
• STALE6900d [PATCH 2/4] Fix mainline filesystems to handle ATTR_KILL_ bits correctly
  2007-08-20 · Jeff Layton <hidden>

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.

• STALE114d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>