fanotify · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• R Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• R Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@google.com>

Paths

• F fs/notify/fanotify/
• F include/linux/fanotify.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
  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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.93
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 083/307] remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD32d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 6.12 254/666] fanotify: call fanotify_events_supported() before path_permission() and security_path_notify()
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 253/666] fdget(), trivial conversions
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 6.18 343/957] fanotify: call fanotify_events_supported() before path_permission() and security_path_notify()
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 6.18 342/957] fanotify: avoid/silence premature LSM capability checks
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 7.0 0445/1146] fanotify: call fanotify_events_supported() before path_permission() and security_path_notify()
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 7.0 0444/1146] fanotify: avoid/silence premature LSM capability checks
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE252d Re: Linux 6.17.3
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE244d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.17 317/563] fanotify: Validate the return value of mnt_ns_from_dentry() before dereferencing
  2025-10-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.16.1
  2025-08-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.15.10
  2025-08-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.42
  2025-08-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.102
  2025-08-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE313d [PATCH 6.15 252/480] fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE311d [PATCH 6.16 339/627] fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE313d [PATCH 6.12 172/369] fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE314d [PATCH 6.6 120/262] fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
  2025-08-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.5
  2024-12-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.66
  2024-12-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE557d [PATCH 6.6 233/356] fanotify: allow reporting errors on failure to open fd
  2024-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE558d [PATCH 6.12 297/466] fanotify: allow reporting errors on failure to open fd
  2024-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE577d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 28/61] fanotify: allow reporting errors on failure to open fd
  2024-11-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE577d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.11 42/87] fanotify: allow reporting errors on failure to open fd
  2024-11-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE561d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 048/107] fanotify: allow reporting errors on failure to open fd
  2024-11-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5.15.y] Revert "fanotify: Allow users to request FAN_FS_ERROR events"
  2024-07-23 · cel@kernel.org
• STALE733d Re: Linux 5.10.220
  2024-06-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• COLD26d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD32d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>