vsprintf · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• R Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
• F lib/tests/printf_kunit.c
• F lib/tests/scanf_kunit.c
• F lib/vsprintf.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• David Laight <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21

Recent patches

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

• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.18 0104/1611] lib/vsprintf: Fix to check field_width and precision
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 7.1 0134/2077] lib/vsprintf: Fix to check field_width and precision
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH] printf: mark errptr() noinline
  2026-04-05 · Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE189d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 072/451] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE195d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 101/554] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE201d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1 109/634] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE164d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6 148/737] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE225d Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE214d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.18 263/614] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE225d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.17 223/507] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE225d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12 150/354] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
  2025-12-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.246
  2025-10-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.195
  2025-10-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE285d [PATCH v2 17/27 5.10.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-17 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.156
  2025-10-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE287d [PATCH v3 09/19 5.15.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-08 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE296d [PATCH v2 09/19 5.15.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-03 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v4 01/11 6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-03 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE301d [PATCH 10/19 5.15.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-02 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE302d [PATCH v3 02/11 6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-02 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE302d Re: Linux 6.6.109
  2025-10-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE304d [PATCH v2 04/13 6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-09-29 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE304d [PATCH v2 03/12 6.6.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-09-29 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE305d [PATCH 10/19 v6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-09-24 · Eliav Farber <hidden>

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 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE201d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>