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 10 patches in this subsystem on linux-unionfs, ordered by date desc.

• COLD60d 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>
• COLD60d Re: [PATCH v3 05/19] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock()
  2026-04-28 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE64d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH 09/11] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE382d [PATCH 2/2] fs/proc: take rcu_read_lock() in proc_sys_compare()
  2025-06-11 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE1003d Re: [syzbot] [integrity] [overlayfs] general protection fault in d_path
  2023-09-29 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1014d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1232d [PATCH v3 5/5] shmem, overlayfs, coda, tty, proc, kernfs, random: Fix splice-read
  2023-02-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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.

• STALE95d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE64d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COLD60d Re: [PATCH v3 05/19] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock()
  2026-04-28 · NeilBrown <hidden>