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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD19d [PATCH 07/10] docs: document idmapped overlay mounts
  2026-06-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 21/21] docs: fuse: document extended passthrough (FUSE_PASSTHROUGH_INO)
  2026-05-16 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• STALE68d Re: [PATCH v3 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE68d [PATCH v3 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH v3 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH v3 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH] ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option
  2026-03-24 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE103d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 08/15] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 08/15] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH 13/13] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH 07/13] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH] ipe: document AT_EXECVE_CHECK TOCTOU issue on OverlayFS
  2026-01-30 · wufan@kernel.org
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE168d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE125d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE177d [PATCH 05/11] fs: refactor ->update_time handling
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE182d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE103d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>