fsnotify: filesystem notification infrastructure · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• R Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Paths

• F fs/notify/
• F include/linux/fsnotify*.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE129d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH v2 104/110] fsnotify: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH v2 051/110] fsnotify: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE146d [PATCH 53/61] fsnotify: update fdinfo format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE147d [PATCH 2/2] fanotify: call fanotify_events_supported() before path_permission() and security_path_notify()
  2026-02-16 · Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
• STALE147d [PATCH 1/2] fanotify: avoid/silence premature LSM capability checks
  2026-02-16 · Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
• STALE525d LANDED [PATCH v5 2/3] fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach
  2025-01-29 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE525d LANDED [PATCH v5 1/3] fsnotify: add mount notification infrastructure
  2025-01-29 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE541d [PATCH v4 4/4] vfs: add notifications for mount attribute change
  2025-01-23 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE541d [PATCH v4 2/4] fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach
  2025-01-23 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE541d [PATCH v4 1/4] fsnotify: add mount notification infrastructure
  2025-01-23 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE540d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE559d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE598d [PATCH v3 fanotify 1/2] fanotify: Introduce fanotify filter
  2024-11-22 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE596d [PATCH 06/11] fsnotify: use sb_for_each_inodes API
  2024-11-18 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE611d [RFC/PATCH v2 bpf-next fanotify 6/7] fanotify: Enable bpf based fanotify fastpath handler
  2024-11-14 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE611d [RFC/PATCH v2 bpf-next fanotify 1/7] fanotify: Introduce fanotify fastpath handler
  2024-11-14 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE647d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v2] fsnotify, lsm: Decouple fsnotify from lsm
  2024-10-13 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE647d Re: [PATCH] fsnotify, lsm: Separate fsnotify_open_perm() and security_file_open()
  2024-10-12 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE652d Re: lsm sb_delete hook, was Re: [PATCH 4/7] vfs: Convert sb->s_inodes iteration to super_iter_inodes()
  2024-10-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
• STALE959d [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Use dlock list for superblock's inode list
  2023-12-06 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE1126d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1126d [PATCH 08/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl_init
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1126d [PATCH 07/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1527d [PATCH] fsnotify: add generic perm check for unlink/rmdir
  2022-05-03 · Guowei Du <hidden>
• STALE1956d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 03/40] fs: add file and path permissions helpers
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2010d [PATCH v5 27/42] notify: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2010d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/42] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2053d [PATCH v4 26/40] notify: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2053d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 11/40] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>

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.

• STALE146d [PATCH 53/61] fsnotify: update fdinfo format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>