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

• STALE272d REVIEWED: 11 (9M) [PATCH v2] loop: don't change loop device under exclusive opener in loop_set_status
  2025-12-17 · Raphael Pinsonneault-Thibeault <hidden>
• STALE305d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] block: fix memory leak in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages
  2025-12-04 · Shaurya Rane <hidden>
• STALE272d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] loop: don't change loop device under exclusive opener in loop_set_status
  2025-11-14 · Raphael Pinsonneault-Thibeault <hidden>
• STALE349d [PATCH] drivers: block: rnbd: Handle generic ERR_PTR returns safely in find_and_get_or_create_sess()
  2025-10-21 · Ranganath V N <hidden>
• STALE350d [PATCH] blk-mq: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  2025-10-18 · Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block: Fix typo in doc comments
  2025-10-01 · Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri <hidden>
• STALE458d LANDED [PATCH] block: zram: replace scnprintf() with sysfs_emit() in *_show() functions
  2025-06-27 · Rahul Kumar <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drivers/block: Updates loop_set_size comment
  2023-09-25 · Yuran Pereira <hidden>
• STALE1147d [PATCH v1] drivers: block: Updates return value check
  2023-08-06 · Atul Kumar Pant <hidden>
• STALE1242d LANDED [PATCH] nbd: Fix debugfs_create_dir error checking
  2023-05-12 · Ivan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
• STALE1503d LANDED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v2] loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop
  2022-08-23 · Siddh Raman Pant <hidden>
• STALE1506d [PATCH] loop: Correct UAPI definitions to match with driver
  2022-08-20 · Siddh Raman Pant <hidden>
• STALE1756d LANDED [PATCH v5 4/4] rsxx: Drop PCI legacy power management
  2021-12-08 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• STALE1756d LANDED [PATCH v5 3/4] mtip32xx: convert to generic power management
  2021-12-08 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• STALE1756d LANDED [PATCH v5 2/4] mtip32xx: remove pointless drvdata lookups
  2021-12-08 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• STALE1756d LANDED [PATCH v5 1/4] mtip32xx: remove pointless drvdata checking
  2021-12-08 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• STALE1917d [PATCH] block: Avoid accessing an already freed kobject in delete_partition
  2021-07-02 · Rajat Asthana <hidden>
• STALE1871d Re: [PATCH v2] block: genhd: don't call probe function with major_names_lock held
  2021-06-20 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
• STALE1871d Re: [PATCH v2] block: genhd: don't call probe function with major_names_lock held
  2021-06-19 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
• STALE1871d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] block: genhd: don't call probe function with major_names_lock held
  2021-06-19 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
• STALE1936d [PATCH] block: break circular locks in blk_request_module
  2021-06-17 · Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <hidden>
• STALE2027d [PATCH] block: fix comment syntax in file headers
  2021-03-17 · Aditya Srivastava <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 2/3] rsxx: use generic power management
  2021-01-14 · Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 3/3] skd: use generic power management
  2021-01-14 · Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v4 1/3] mtip32xx: use generic power management
  2021-01-14 · Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@gmail.com>
• STALE2067d Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] POC script to apply patches into a test-branch and run clang-format
  2020-12-11 · Aditya <hidden>
• STALE2067d Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] POC script to apply patches into a test-branch and run clang-format
  2020-12-05 · Aditya <hidden>
• STALE2194d [PATCH v4] block/scsi-ioctl: Fix kernel-infoleak in scsi_put_cdrom_generic_arg()
  2020-10-02 · Peilin Ye <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] block/scsi-ioctl: Prevent kernel-infoleak in scsi_put_cdrom_generic_arg()
  2020-09-09 · Peilin Ye <hidden>
• STALE2223d [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] block: Fix use-after-free in bdev_del_partition()
  2020-09-03 · Peilin Ye <hidden>