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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 00/13] sysctl: add module aliases
  2026-08-19 18:17 · 5 replies in 7d · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 00/13] sysctl: add module aliases
  2026-08-19 02:30 · 5 replies in 7d · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 11/13] sysctl: unrandomize struct ctl_table.procname
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 06/13] sysctl, net: add register_net_sysctl{_sz}() wrappers for MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 04/13] sysctl: add register_sysctl() wrapper for MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC v3 03/13] sysctl, mod_devicetable: add macro MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 11/13] sysctl: unrandomize struct ctl_table.procname
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 06/13] sysctl, net: add register_net_sysctl{_sz}() wrappers for MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 04/13] sysctl: add register_sysctl() wrapper for MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC v2 03/13] sysctl, mod_devicetable: add macro MODULE_SYSCTL_TABLE
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• STALE594d Re: [syzbot] [mptcp?] general protection fault in proc_scheduler
  2025-01-05 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE663d [PATCH v4 net-next 14/14] net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_FIVE
  2024-10-21 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 net-next 14/14] net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_FIVE
  2024-10-18 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next 14/14] net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_FIVE
  2024-10-18 · <hidden>
• STALE678d [PATCH net-next 16/44] net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_FIVE
  2024-10-15 · <hidden>
• STALE802d [PATCH 6/8] sysctl: Remove "child" sysctl code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE802d [PATCH 5/8] sysctl: Remove superfluous empty allocations from sysctl internals
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE802d [PATCH 7/8] sysctl: Remove ctl_table sentinel code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE802d [PATCH 8/8] sysctl: Warn on an empty procname element
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE802d [PATCH 4/8] sysctl: Replace nr_entries with ctl_table_size in new_links
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE802d [PATCH 3/8] sysctl: Remove check for sentinel element in ctl_table arrays
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE834d [PATCH v3 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE834d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE844d [PATCH v2] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2024-04-18 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE844d [PATCH v3] fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-04-02 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE879d [PATCH v2] fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-03-22 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE892d [PATCH 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE892d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE886d [PATCH v3 2/2] sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE886d [PATCH v3 1/2] sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>