[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as UFS filesystem maintainer

Ali Ahmet Memis <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 05:50:15 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
fs/ufs has no MAINTAINERS entry. get_maintainer.pl returns only the open
lists, so patches for it have no clear reviewer and tend to sit
unanswered. The archives show the cost of this: a truncate path memory
leak fix was posted in 2018 with a stable tag and was never applied [1],
and recent mount path hardening patches went weeks without a maintainer
to review or apply them [2][3].

The code needs attention. It parses on-disk BSD and Solaris layouts with
very little validation, so several crafted-image mount crashes are still
open. I have been reading it and fixing real bugs in the normal paths as
well, including the 2018 leak above and an rmdir path that treated an
unreadable directory block as empty and could drop a non-empty directory
[4].

I am willing to take responsibility for fs/ufs: review incoming patches,
carry the pending fixes, and keep it building and correct. Add a
Maintained entry to reflect that.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [4]
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <[email protected]>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 62d53465e..8a1dc78f0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -27663,6 +27663,12 @@ L:	[email protected]
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/hid/hid-udraw-ps3.c
 
+UFS FILESYSTEM
+M:	Ali Ahmet Memis <[email protected]>
+L:	[email protected]
+S:	Maintained
+F:	fs/ufs/
+
 UHID USERSPACE HID IO DRIVER
 M:	David Rheinsberg <[email protected]>
 L:	[email protected]
-- 
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