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

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.151
  2026-08-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2026-08-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2026-08-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE445d Re: Linux 6.15.7
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE445d Re: Linux 6.12.39
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE445d Re: Linux 6.6.99
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.146
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE445d Re: Linux 5.15.189
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.240
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.4.296
  2025-07-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE441d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 136/208] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE446d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1 06/88] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE445d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.15 021/192] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE446d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.4 108/148] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE446d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 04/77] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE446d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6 010/109] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE446d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12 023/163] fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries
  2025-07-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE571d Re: Linux 5.15.179
  2025-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE555d [PATCH 5.15 005/620] sysctl: share unsigned long const values
  2025-03-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE725d Re: Linux 6.11.3
  2024-10-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.10.14
  2024-10-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE724d [PATCH 6.10 375/482] sysctl: avoid spurious permanent empty tables
  2024-10-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE752d [PATCH] sysctl: avoid spurious permanent empty tables
  2024-08-27 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE777d Re: Linux 5.15.165
  2024-08-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.224
  2024-08-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.45
  2024-08-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.104
  2024-08-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE783d [PATCH 6.1 07/86] sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE783d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1 06/86] sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  2024-08-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE785d [PATCH 6.6 016/121] sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
  2024-08-07 · 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.

• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2026-08-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2026-08-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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 6.6.151
  2026-08-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>