netfilter · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• M Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
• R Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

Paths

• F include/linux/netfilter*
• F include/linux/netfilter/
• F include/net/netfilter/
• F include/uapi/linux/netfilter*
• F include/uapi/linux/netfilter/
• F net/*/netfilter.c
• F net/*/netfilter/
• F net/bridge/br_netfilter*.c
• F net/netfilter/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv4: validate checksum_start before completing checksum
  2026-10-07 22:42 · 0 replies in 7d · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-10-07

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv4: validate checksum_start before completing checksum
  2026-10-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 01/16 net-next v3] ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-30 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 01/16 net-next v2] ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-28 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH RFC v3 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH RFC v3 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH RFC v3 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH RFC v2 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH RFC v2 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH RFC v2 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v12 nf-next 7/7] netfilter: nft_flow_offload: Add bridgeflow to nft_flow_offload_eval()
  2026-07-07 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 nf-next 6/7] netfilter: nft_flow_offload: Add NFPROTO_BRIDGE to validate
  2026-07-07 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v12 nf-next 5/7] netfilter: nft_flow_offload: nft_flow_offload_eval: check thoff==0
  2026-07-07 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 nf-next 4/7] netfilter: nf_flow_table_inet: Add nf_flowtable_type flowtable_bridge
  2026-07-07 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 nf-next 3/7] netfilter: nf_flow_table_offload: Add nf_flow_rule_bridge()
  2026-07-07 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE127d [PATCH nf v2 1/1] bridge: br_netfilter: move fake rtable off struct net_bridge
  2026-05-26 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• STALE136d [PATCH nf 1/1] bridge: br_netfilter: give fake rtable its own lifetime
  2026-05-14 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• STALE150d [PATCH v20 nf-next 1/2] netfilter: utils: nf_ip(6)_checksum(_partial) correct data!=networkheader
  2026-05-12 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 5/6] net: Change CONFIG_INET to CONFIG_LEGACY_IP for IPv4-only code
  2026-04-01 · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 11/11 net-next v5] netfilter: remove nf_ipv6_ops and use direct function calls
  2026-03-25 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 01/11 net-next v5] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-25 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE199d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 11/11 net-next v4] netfilter: remove nf_ipv6_ops and use direct function calls
  2026-03-20 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE199d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 01/11 net-next v4] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-20 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <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 [PATCH v12 nf-next] bridge: Introduce DEV_PATH_BR_VLAN_KEEP_HW
  2026-03-17 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE150d [PATCH v20 nf-next 1/2] netfilter: utils: nf_ip(6)_checksum(_partial) correct data!=networkheader
  2026-05-12 · Eric Woudstra <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>