diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 80934ad2c3..d422ce50e3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@ F: include/sysemu/balloon.h
 virtio-9p
 M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
 M: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
-S: Odd Fixes
+S: Maintained
 W: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9p
 F: hw/9pfs/
 X: hw/9pfs/xen-9p*