proc sysctl · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• M Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>

Paths

• F fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
• F include/linux/sysctl.h
• F kernel/sysctl*
• F tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/*
• F lib/test_sysctl.c
• F scripts/check-sysctl-docs

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 28 patches in this subsystem on linux-patches, ordered by date desc.

• STALE392d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 136/208] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1 06/88] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.15 021/192] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.4 108/148] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 04/77] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6 010/109] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE397d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12 023/163] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE507d [PATCH 5.15 005/620] sysctl: share unsigned long const values
  2025-03-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE675d [PATCH 6.10 375/482] sysctl: avoid spurious permanent empty tables
  2024-10-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE735d [PATCH 6.1 07/86] sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE735d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1 06/86] sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE736d [PATCH 6.6 016/121] sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE736d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6 015/121] sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE755d [PATCH 5.10 344/770] sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE925d [PATCH 6.7 052/353] sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  2024-02-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE925d [PATCH 6.6 048/322] sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  2024-02-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1146d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 29/81] sysctl: move some boundary constants from sysctl.c to sysctl_vals
  2023-06-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1202d [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove register_sysctl_paths()
  2023-05-03 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1165d [PATCH 5.10 074/124] sysctl: add proc_dou8vec_minmax()
  2023-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  2023-03-10 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1239d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.2 0482/1001] sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability
  2023-03-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1247d [PATCH 03/11] sysctl: clarify register_sysctl_init() base directory order
  2023-03-02 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1247d [PATCH 01/11] proc_sysctl: update docs for __register_sysctl_table()
  2023-03-02 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1247d [PATCH 11/11] proc_sysctl: deprecate register_sysctl_paths()
  2023-03-02 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1247d [PATCH 02/11] proc_sysctl: move helper which creates required subdirectories
  2023-03-02 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1290d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.4 114/134] sysctl: add a new register_sysctl_init() interface
  2023-02-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 079/143] sysctl: add a new register_sysctl_init() interface
  2023-01-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1294d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15 123/204] sysctl: add a new register_sysctl_init() interface
  2023-01-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>