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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 0/9] Support for block device NVMEM providers
  2026-06-29 08:55 · 1 reply in 7d · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix local_cnt refcount leak on ascw allocation failure in _drbd_set_state
  2026-06-25 15:16 · 0 replies in 7d · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix double put_ldev in receive_SyncParam on fifo_alloc failure
  2026-06-25 15:04 · 0 replies in 7d · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block/partitions/of: Fix of_node reference leak in of_partition()
  2026-06-25 09:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] block: Fix dio->ref leak on integrity error in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  2026-06-25 09:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in _drbd_set_state()
  2026-06-25 05:18 · 0 replies in 7d · Ваторопин Андрей <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
  5 attestations (1 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-15
• Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  4 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-15
• Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-07
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-07

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix local_cnt refcount leak on ascw allocation failure in _drbd_set_state
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix double put_ldev in receive_SyncParam on fifo_alloc failure
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block/partitions/of: Fix of_node reference leak in of_partition()
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] block: Fix dio->ref leak on integrity error in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  2026-06-25 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drbd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in _drbd_set_state()
  2026-06-25 · Ваторопин Андрей <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v3 5/5] block: validate user space vectors during extraction
  2026-06-24 · Keith Busch <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCHv2 6/6] block: validate user space vectors during extraction
  2026-06-22 · Keith Busch <hidden>
• COOLING12d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.143
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.94
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING12d Re: Linux 6.1.176
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.210
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.259
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 1/1] block: validate user space vectors during extraction
  2026-06-17 · Keith Busch <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH V2]block: Remove redundant plug in __submit_bio()
  2026-06-16 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] block: remove redundant GD_NEED_PART_SCAN in add_disk_final()
  2026-06-15 · Connor Williamson <hidden>
• COLD22d Re: Linux 7.0.12
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 7.0 142/332] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_writeback_endio
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 7.0 057/332] blk-mq: reinsert cached request to the list
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH] block/fops: fix refcount underflow in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  2026-06-03 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• COLD30d Re: Linux 7.0.11
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD30d Re: Linux 6.18.34
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD30d Re: Linux 6.12.92
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD30d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE167d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] block: validate pi_offset integrity limit
  2025-12-23 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2025-12-29 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: freeze queue when updating zone resources" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2025-12-29 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 5 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 6.12.y] block: freeze queue when updating zone resources
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 5 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: handle zone management operations completions" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-01-05 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 5 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 6.12.y] block: handle zone management operations completions
  2026-01-05 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 5 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] block,bfq: fix aux stat accumulation destination
  2026-01-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18.y] ublk: reorder tag_set initialization before queue allocation
  2026-01-11 · Ming Lei <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5.10-v5.15] blk-throttle: Set BIO_THROTTLED when bio has been throttled
  2026-01-12 · Keerthana K <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCHv2] null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items
  2026-01-13 · Nilay Shroff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

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 Re: Linux 5.15.197
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE206d Re: Linux 6.1.159
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH 6.12 320/354] blk-mq: Abort suspend when wakeup events are pending
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH 6.17 460/507] blk-mq: Abort suspend when wakeup events are pending
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE184d [PATCH 6.18 559/614] blk-mq: Abort suspend when wakeup events are pending
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE195d Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block: fix partial IOVA mapping cleanup in blk_rq_dma_map_iova
  2025-12-20 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] block/blk-mq: fix RT kernel regression with queue_lock in hot path
  2025-12-20 · Ionut Nechita (WindRiver) <hidden>