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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v3 0/3] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-09-11 14:47 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/7] fs: preserve superblock inode walk positions across lock drops
  2026-09-09 09:01 · 1 reply in 7d · Julian Sun <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH 3/7] block: use sb_for_each_inodes() in sync_bdevs()
  2026-09-09 · Julian Sun <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE64d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE94d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE152d Re: [PATCH 6/7] tomoyo: Convert from sb_mount to granular mount hooks
  2026-03-24 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
• STALE149d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE327d [PATCH v2] nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg()
  2025-10-10 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• STALE338d [PATCH] nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg()
  2025-10-09 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• STALE359d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE647d [PATCH 02/11] block: use sb_for_each_inodes API
  2024-11-18 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE754d [PATCH v20 11/20] block|lsm: Add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block devices
  2024-08-03 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE832d [PATCH v19 11/20] block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block device
  2024-05-24 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE844d [PATCH v18 11/21] block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block device
  2024-05-03 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE870d [PATCH v17 11/21] block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block device
  2024-04-13 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE893d [PATCH v16 11/20] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2024-03-28 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE905d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v15 11/21] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2024-03-16 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE824d [PATCH 04/10] block: use new capable_any functionality
  2024-03-15 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE914d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v14 11/19] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2024-03-06 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE924d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v13 11/20] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2024-02-29 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE949d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v12 11/20] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2024-01-30 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE1010d [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Use dlock list for superblock's inode list
  2023-12-06 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE1014d LANDED [PATCH v2 1/3] io_uring: split out cmd api into a separate header
  2023-12-01 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• STALE1044d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v11 10/19] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2023-10-04 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE1130d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v10 10/17] block|security: add LSM blob to block_device
  2023-06-28 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• STALE1208d [PATCH 2/2] block: use block_admin_capable() for Persistent Reservations
  2023-05-11 · Tianjia Zhang <hidden>
• STALE1214d [PATCH RFC 09/16] block: Add blk_validate_atomic_write_op()
  2023-05-03 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE1214d [PATCH RFC 10/16] block: Add fops atomic write support
  2023-05-03 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE1214d [PATCH RFC 01/16] block: Add atomic write operations to request_queue limits
  2023-05-03 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.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.

• COLD47d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>