usb mass storage driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Paths

• F drivers/usb/storage/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-10 14:53 · 0 replies in 7d · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-06 11:40 · 0 replies in 7d · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ai Chao <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-16
• Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-10
• Ijae Kim <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-27
• Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-26

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-10 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-06 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH] usb-storage: Add US_FL_IGNORE_UAS for JMicron JMS581
  2026-08-01 · Chris Bainbridge <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH] usb: storage: realtek_cr: fix use-after-free on disconnect
  2026-07-27 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] USB: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC responses
  2026-07-26 · Jiancheng Huang <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH] usb: storage: make ndecimals unsigned in parse_delay_str()
  2026-07-16 · David Cusimano <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v2] USB: storage: add NO_ATA_1X quirk for Longmai USB Key
  2026-07-16 · Huang Wei <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH] USB: storage: add NO_ATA_1X quirk for Longmai USB Key
  2026-07-15 · Huang Wei <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC PATCH] usb: storage: uas: limit consecutive device resets in error handling
  2026-07-01 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• COLD46d [PATCH] USB: usb-storage: ene_ub6250: restore media-ready check
  2026-06-26 · raoxu <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH] USB: storage: include US_FL_NO_SAME in quirks mask
  2026-06-02 · Xu Rao <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH 10/11] treewide: Manually convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE62d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH] usb: storage: Add quirks for PNY Elite Portable SSD
  2026-05-01 · Sam Burkels <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] usb: storage: Expand range of matched versions for VL817 quirks entry
  2026-04-02 · Daniel Brát <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] USB: uas: give the error handler the correct name
  2026-03-12 · Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
• STALE153d [PATCH] USB: storage: UAS: ignore UAS on Realtek RTL9210B with firmware f0.01
  2026-03-08 · Nils Reuter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] usb: usb-storage: Maintain minimal modifications to the bcdDevice range.
  2025-12-18 · Chen Changcheng <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH] USB: storage: Ignore driver CD interface of SR9700 USB Ethernet adapters
  2025-12-11 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the EL-R12 optical drive.
  2025-12-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE238d [PATCH v4] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the EL-R12 optical drive.
  2025-12-03 · Chen Changcheng <hidden>
• STALE259d [PATCH v4] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the EL-R12 optical drive.
  2025-11-25 · Chen Changcheng <hidden>
• STALE260d [PATCH v3] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the EL-R12 optical drive.
  2025-11-25 · Chen Changcheng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies patch "USB: storage: Remove subclass and protocol overrides from Novatek" added to usb-linus
  2025-11-22 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE263d [PATCH v3] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the EL-R12 optical drive.
  2025-11-21 · Chen Changcheng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4] usb: uas: fix urb unmapping issue when the uas device is remove during ongoing data transfer
  2025-11-20 · guhuinan <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH 28/44] drivers/usb/storage: use min() instead of min_t()
  2025-11-19 · <hidden>
• STALE269d [PATCH] usb: storage: sddr55: Reject out-of-bound new_pba
  2025-11-16 · flynnnchen(陈天楚) <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCHv1 1/1] usb: uas: reduce time under spinlock
  2025-11-12 · Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
• STALE273d [PATCH v2] usb: usb-storage: No additional quirks need to be added to the ECD819-SU3 optical drive.
  2025-11-11 · <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] USB: uas: give the error handler the correct name
  2026-03-12 · Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] usb: storage: Expand range of matched versions for VL817 quirks entry
  2026-04-02 · Daniel Brát <hidden>