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-hardening (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD40d [PATCH next] drivers/block/rbd: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] block/early-lookup: Replace strlen() strcpy() pair with strscpy()
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE116d [PATCH] block: partitions: Replace pp_buf with struct seq_buf
  2026-03-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE193d [PATCH 4/4] blk-iocost: Correct comment ioc_gq::level
  2025-12-17 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• STALE232d Re: [PATCH] overflow: Introduce struct_offset() to get offset of member
  2025-11-26 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE196d LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v9 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block: Replace deprecated strcpy in devt_from_devname
  2025-11-13 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• STALE240d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v8 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE242d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-06 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE255d [PATCH net-next v5 3/8] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE255d [PATCH net-next v5 2/8] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE212d [PATCH v6 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [net-next PATCH v4 1/7] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE268d [PATCH v3 3/9] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE268d [PATCH v3 4/9] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE271d [PATCH v2 04/10] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE271d [PATCH v2 03/10] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE654d [PATCH v4 4/5] block: add support for partition table defined in OF
  2024-09-30 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• STALE654d [PATCH v4 2/5] docs: block: Document support for read-only partition in cmdline part
  2024-09-30 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• STALE654d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 1/5] block: add support for defining read-only partitions
  2024-09-30 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• STALE638d [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support
  2024-09-16 · Md Sadre Alam <hidden>
• STALE881d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4] nbd: null check for nla_nest_start
  2024-02-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE948d LANDED [PATCH] block/rnbd-srv: Check for unlikely string overflow
  2023-12-12 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1018d LANDED [PATCH v3] null_blk: replace strncpy with strscpy
  2023-09-19 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE1018d LANDED [PATCH v2] aoe: replace strncpy with strscpy
  2023-09-19 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE1034d [PATCH v2] null_blk: refactor deprecated strncpy
  2023-09-18 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE1023d LANDED [PATCH] drbd: Annotate struct fifo_buffer with __counted_by
  2023-09-15 · Kees Cook <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] block/early-lookup: Replace strlen() strcpy() pair with strscpy()
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>