networking [general] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• R Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst
• F Documentation/netlink/
• F Documentation/networking/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/
• F Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
• F Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/
• F include/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer-provider.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer.h
• F include/linux/in.h
• F include/linux/in6.h
• F include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
• F include/linux/inet.h
• F include/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/linux/net.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/linux/netlink.h
• F include/linux/netpoll.h
• F include/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/linux/sctp.h
• F include/linux/seq_file_net.h
• F include/linux/skbuff*
• F include/net/
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/hsr_netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/in.h
• F include/uapi/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/nbd-netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net_namespace.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netconf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
• F lib/net_utils.c
• F lib/random32.c
• F net/
• F samples/pktgen/
• F tools/net/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/
• X Documentation/networking/regulatory.rst
• X include/net/bluetooth/
• X include/net/cfg80211.h
• X include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
• X include/net/iw_handler.h
• X include/net/mac80211.h
• X include/net/wext.h
• X net/9p/
• X net/bluetooth/
• X net/can/
• X net/ceph/
• X net/mac80211/
• X net/rfkill/
• X net/wireless/
• X tools/testing/selftests/net/can/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• [PATCH 19/20] fbconsole: adapt logging depending on activated streams
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• [PATCH 20/20] netconsole: suppress log message when opening console file
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/2] net: dns: fix packet buffer overflow from long hostnames
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 2/2] net: dns: fix OOB read in dns_recv query type check
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 3/3] net: dhcp: cap DHCP option string length to 255 bytes
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 1/3] net: dhcp: add bounds checking to DHCP option parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 2/3] net: dhcp: use xstrndup for bp_file to prevent read past field
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 1/3] net: dhcp: add bounds checking to DHCP option parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 3/3] net: dhcp: cap DHCP option string length to 255 bytes
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 2/3] net: dhcp: use strnlen/xstrndup for bp_file to prevent read past field
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 09/10] net: fastboot: stop using net_eth_to_udp_payload() for PACKET_SIZE
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 08/10] net: fastboot: use net_eth_to_udp() for packet parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 03/10] net: dhcp: use net_eth_to_udp() for packet parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 01/10] net: add net_eth_to_udp() helper for validated UDP extraction
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 05/10] net: dns: use net_eth_to_udp() for packet parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 06/10] net: sntp: use net_eth_to_udp() for packet parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 07/10] net: netconsole: use net_eth_to_udp() for packet parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2025.09.y 36/58] net: eth: avoid overlapping memcpy in eth_set_ethaddr
  2026-03-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH master 1/3] treewide: fix -Wformat-security warnings for run_command()
  2026-03-02 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• [PATCH 03/12] net: eth: avoid overlapping memcpy in eth_set_ethaddr
  2026-02-16 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 6/7] treewide: make use of new run_command variadic
  2026-02-12 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• [PATCH] net: make default netboot artifact directory configurable
  2026-01-20 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 06/13] treewide: fix some missing EXPORT_SYMBOL
  2026-01-16 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• [PATCH 05/12] treewide: fix some missing EXPORT_SYMBOL
  2026-01-15 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• [PATCH v2025.09.y 33/49] net: reset pending ARP state when request is done
  2025-12-19 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2025.09.y 32/49] net: arp: collect context into new struct pending_arp
  2025-12-19 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 3/3] lib: smbios: add support for populating SMBIOS table
  2025-12-15 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] net: reset pending ARP state when request is done
  2025-11-28 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 1/2] net: arp: collect context into new struct pending_arp
  2025-11-28 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 2/2] net: reset pending ARP state when request is done
  2025-11-27 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

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.

• [PATCH 3/3] lib: smbios: add support for populating SMBIOS table
  2025-12-15 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2025.09.y 32/49] net: arp: collect context into new struct pending_arp
  2025-12-19 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2 6/7] treewide: make use of new run_command variadic
  2026-02-12 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• [PATCH 03/12] net: eth: avoid overlapping memcpy in eth_set_ethaddr
  2026-02-16 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH v2025.09.y 36/58] net: eth: avoid overlapping memcpy in eth_set_ethaddr
  2026-03-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 3/3] net: dhcp: cap DHCP option string length to 255 bytes
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 2/3] net: dhcp: use strnlen/xstrndup for bp_file to prevent read past field
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 1/3] net: dhcp: add bounds checking to DHCP option parsing
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 2/2] net: dns: fix OOB read in dns_recv query type check
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH 1/2] net: dns: fix packet buffer overflow from long hostnames
  2026-04-02 · Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>