block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-07-06 01:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-07-06 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH] rbd: check snap_count against RBD_MAX_SNAP_COUNT
  2026-05-30 · Rosen Penev <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH] rbd: cast snap_count to size_t to avoid tautological comparison warning
  2026-05-28 · Rosen Penev <hidden>
• STALE103d [RFC 1/2] block: Introduce the UFQ I/O scheduler
  2026-03-27 · Chengkaitao <hidden>
• STALE261d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [RESEND PATCH v18 05/16] rnull: use `kernel::fmt`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
• STALE261d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v18 05/16] rnull: use `kernel::fmt`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE262d [PATCH v17 05/11] rnull: use `kernel::fmt`
  2025-10-15 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE370d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE370d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE373d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE373d [PATCH v12 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE402d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE402d [PATCH v11 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE406d [PATCH v10 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE574d [PATCH] blk-iocost: Avoid using clamp() on inuse in __propagate_weights()
  2024-12-12 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE582d Re: s390: block/blk-iocost.c:1101:11: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_557' declared with 'error' attribute: clamp() low limit 1 greater than high limit active
  2024-12-04 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE757d LANDED [PATCH] block: sed-opal: avoid possible wrong address reference in read_sed_opal_key()
  2024-06-11 · Su Hui <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 5/5] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 7/7] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 9/9] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 11/11] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.8 14/14] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE750d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 15/15] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-26 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE793d LANDED [PATCH v3] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
  2024-05-07 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE794d [PATCH v2] block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report:
  2024-05-07 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE794d [PATCH] block/ioctl: use overflow helper for blkpg_partition fields
  2024-05-06 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE827d [PATCH 3/9] rbd: avoid out-of-range warning
  2024-03-28 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE877d LANDED [PATCH] drbd: fix function cast warnings in state machine
  2024-02-13 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE877d LANDED [PATCH] floppy: fix function pointer cast warnings
  2024-02-13 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1014d LANDED [PATCH] drbd: Annotate struct fifo_buffer with __counted_by
  2023-09-15 · Kees Cook <hidden>