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

• COOLING5d [PATCH 6/7] procfs: drop parent lock for d_alloc_parallel() in iterate_shared()
  2026-09-29 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 24/27] fs: port ->setattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 23/27] fs: port ->getattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 12/27] fs: port ->permission() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE223d [PATCH 09/11] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE616d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE634d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE877d [PATCH v3 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE877d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE935d [PATCH 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE935d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE1037d [PATCH v2 0/4] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from fs dir
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1037d [PATCH v2 3/4] sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1037d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v2 2/4] fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1062d [PATCH 3/4] sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1062d [PATCH 2/4] aio: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1062d [PATCH 0/4] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from fs dir
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1112d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1134d [PATCH v6 1/7] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1176d [PATCH v5 1/8] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-13 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1201d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1201d [PATCH 07/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1211d [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-05-18 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE2032d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 07/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2032d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2032d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 11/40] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2085d [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2085d [PATCH v5 13/42] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2085d [PATCH v5 18/42] stat: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · 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.

• STALE194d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>