inotify · Maintained

Maintainers

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

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/inotify.rst
• F fs/notify/inotify/
• F include/linux/inotify.h
• F include/uapi/linux/inotify.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD41d 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>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD44d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 253/666] fdget(), trivial conversions
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE66d Re: Linux 6.18.27
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.86
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE136d [PATCH] inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotify_add_inode_mark_locked() fails
  2026-02-24 · Chia-Ming Chang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.11.6
  2024-11-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE621d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.11 132/261] fsnotify: Avoid data race between fsnotify_recalc_mask() and fsnotify_object_watched()
  2024-10-28 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE638d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.11 13/16] fsnotify: Avoid data race between fsnotify_recalc_mask() and fsnotify_object_watched()
  2024-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE751d Re: Linux 5.10.220
  2024-06-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 544/770] fs: inotify: Fix typo in inotify comment
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 497/770] inotify: use fsnotify group lock helpers
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 494/770] fsnotify: pass flags argument to fsnotify_alloc_group()
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 493/770] inotify: move control flags from mask to mark flags
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 5.10 372/770] fsnotify: Pass group argument to free_event
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 5.10 369/770] fsnotify: Add wrapper around fsnotify_add_event
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 5.10 367/770] inotify: Dont force FS_IN_IGNORED
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 249/770] fsnotify: allow fsnotify_{peek,remove}_first_event with empty queue
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 253/770] fsnotify: use hash table for faster events merge
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d [PATCH 5.10 251/770] fanotify: reduce event objectid to 29-bit hash
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 195/770] fs: add file and path permissions helpers
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 5.10 190/770] inotify, memcg: account inotify instances to kmemcg
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE718d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 5.10 129/770] inotify: Increase default inotify.max_user_watches limit to 1048576
  2024-06-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.154
  2024-04-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE824d [PATCH 5.15 336/690] fs: inotify: Fix typo in inotify comment
  2024-04-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE824d [PATCH 5.15 290/690] inotify: move control flags from mask to mark flags
  2024-04-08 · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.86
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE66d Re: Linux 6.18.27
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD44d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  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>
• COLD41d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>