framebuffer layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Paths

• F Documentation/fb/
• F drivers/video/
• F include/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/video/
• F include/video/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD33d [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  2026-06-08 · <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/sis: Replace strlen() strcpy() pair with strscpy()
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/cyber2000fb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/fb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/riva: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 2/9] fbdev: Use panic_in_progress() helper
  2025-08-25 · Jinchao Wang <hidden>
• STALE426d [PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console
  2025-05-09 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE436d Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: arkfb: Cast ics5342_init() allocation type
  2025-04-26 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• STALE436d [PATCH] video: fbdev: arkfb: Cast ics5342_init() allocation type
  2025-04-26 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE760d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE835d [PATCH] video/hdmi: prefer length specifier in format over string copying
  2024-03-20 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE835d [PATCH] fbdev: uvesafb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  2024-03-20 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE835d [PATCH] video: fbdev: fsl-diu-fb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  2024-03-20 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE808d [PATCH] video: fbdev: au1200fb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  2024-03-18 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE1022d [PATCH] video: mmp: Annotate struct mmp_path with __counted_by
  2023-09-22 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1023d [PATCH] video: fbdev: mmp: Annotate struct mmphw_ctrl with __counted_by
  2023-09-22 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1116d [PATCH][next] fbdev: sh7760fb: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings
  2023-06-22 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• STALE1280d [PATCH] fbdev: Replace 0-length array with flexible array
  2023-01-05 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1368d [PATCH] fbdev: MIPS supports iomem addresses
  2022-10-12 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1732d [PATCH] video: omapfb: Fix fall-through warning for Clang
  2021-10-14 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• STALE1881d [PATCH 134/141] video: fbdev: lxfb_ops: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  2020-11-20 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• STALE1881d [PATCH 135/141] video: fbdev: pm2fb: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  2020-11-20 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>

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] drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/cyber2000fb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/fb: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH next] drivers/video/fbdev/riva: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>