overlay filesystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
• M Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
• F fs/overlayfs/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE89d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE684d [PATCH v1 2/2] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook inode_copy_up_xattr
  2024-07-24 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE690d [PATCH bpf-next v4 05/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook inode_copy_up_xattr
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE768d [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ovl: Define D_REAL_FILEDATA for d_real to return dentry with data
  2024-04-22 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE773d [RFC 1/2] ovl: Define D_REAL_FILEDATA for d_real to return dentry with data
  2024-04-12 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE795d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 09/10] fs: Rename SB_I_EVM_UNSUPPORTED to SB_I_EVM_HMAC_UNSUPPORTED
  2024-02-23 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE795d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 02/10] security: allow finer granularity in permitting copy-up of security xattrs
  2024-02-23 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE829d [PATCH v2 20/25] ovl: add fscaps handlers
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE829d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 21/25] ovl: use vfs_{get,set}_fscaps() for copy-up
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE844d [PATCH v2 7/9] fs: Rename SB_I_EVM_UNSUPPORTED to SB_I_EVM_HMAC_UNSUPPORTED
  2024-02-05 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE844d [PATCH v2 2/9] security: allow finer granularity in permitting copy-up of security xattrs
  2024-02-05 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE858d LANDED [PATCH 2/2] fs: remove the inode argument to ->d_real() method
  2024-02-02 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE862d [PATCH 1/5] security: allow finer granularity in permitting copy-up of security xattrs
  2024-01-30 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE906d [PATCH v2 3/3] overlay: disable EVM
  2023-12-19 · Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE912d [RFC][PATCH] overlayfs: Redirect xattr ops on security.evm to security.evm_overlayfs
  2023-12-08 · Roberto Sassu <hidden>
• STALE961d [PATCH v3] ima: detect changes to the backing overlay file
  2023-10-25 · Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE962d [PATCH v2] ima: detect changes to the backing overlay file
  2023-10-25 · Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE963d [PATCH] ima: detect changes to the backing overlay file
  2023-10-24 · Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE977d LANDED [PATCH v3 3/3] fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
  2023-10-09 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE978d [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
  2023-10-07 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE919d LANDED [PATCH] fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function
  2023-10-02 · Stefan Berger <hidden>
• STALE986d Re: [syzbot] [integrity] [overlayfs] general protection fault in d_path
  2023-09-29 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE986d Re: [syzbot] [integrity] [overlayfs] general protection fault in d_path
  2023-09-29 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1104d Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after writes
  2023-05-19 · Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1104d Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after writes
  2023-04-09 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1153d Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after writes
  2023-04-06 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1153d [PATCH] overlayfs: Trigger file re-evaluation by IMA / EVM after writes
  2023-04-05 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>

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.

• STALE106d [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>