block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH v7 05/43] blk-crypto: add a process bio callback
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH v6 05/43] blk-crypto: add a process_bio callback
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE143d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d Re: [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-12-19 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE149d [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE170d [PATCH 3/9] block: merge bio_split_rw_at into bio_split_io_at
  2025-12-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE202d [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-10-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE202d [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skciphers for fallback en/decryption
  2025-10-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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.

• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 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.

• STALE143d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD42d [PATCH v6 05/43] blk-crypto: add a process_bio callback
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>