overlay filesystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
• M Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
• F fs/overlayfs/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 12:11 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• COOLING4d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.93
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 083/307] remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH v2] ovl: keep err zero after successful ovl_cache_get()
  2026-05-14 · Nirmoy Das <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.7
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH] ovl: keep err zero after successful ovl_cache_get()
  2026-05-14 · Nirmoy Das <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.4
  2026-05-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] ovl: fix verity lazy-load guard broken by fsverity_active() semantic change
  2026-05-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] ovl: use linked upper dentry in copy-up tmpfile
  2026-05-01 · Souvik Banerjee <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (13M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-05-01 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (13M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
  2026-05-01 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE82d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.21
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE84d FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-30 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE91d [PATCH] ovl: fix wrong detection of 32bit inode numbers
  2026-03-24 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE88d [PATCH] ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option
  2026-03-24 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.252
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.202
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE69d Re: Linux 6.12.75
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 6.18 484/641] ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE115d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 6.19 597/781] ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5.10] ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination
  2025-12-31 · Shivani Agarwal <hidden>
• STALE198d Re: Linux 6.17.11
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.247
  2025-12-06 · 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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5.10] ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination
  2025-12-31 · Shivani Agarwal <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (13M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
  2026-05-01 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 3 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (13M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-05-01 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 3 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 5.10.247
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE198d Re: Linux 6.17.11
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE115d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.1.165
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.202
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.252
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>