networking [unix sockets] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

Paths

• F include/net/af_unix.h
• F include/net/netns/unix.h
• F include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h
• F net/unix/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE169d LANDED [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] selftests: net: Move some UAPI header inclusions after libc ones
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE259d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 11/17] vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 1/1] af_unix: Allow Unix sockets to raise SIGURG
  2021-02-11 · <hidden>
• STALE2006d [PATCH] af_unix: Allow Unix sockets to raise SIGURG
  2021-01-22 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE1962d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 03/40] fs: add file and path permissions helpers
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1962d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 14/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE1962d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 17/40] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2015d [PATCH v5 24/42] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2015d [PATCH v5 21/42] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2015d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/42] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v4 20/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v4 23/40] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2058d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 11/40] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2020-12-04 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2059d [RFC net-next af_unix v1 1/1] af_unix: Allow delivery of SIGURG on AF_UNIX streams socket
  2020-11-29 · <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v3 18/38] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v3 09/38] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v3 21/38] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-28 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2068d [PATCH v2 21/39] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2068d [PATCH v2 18/39] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2068d [PATCH v2 09/39] namei: add idmapped mount aware permission helpers
  2020-11-15 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2094d [PATCH 22/34] af_unix: handle idmapped mounts
  2020-10-29 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next] af_unix: eof in recvmsg after shutdown for nonblocking dgram socket
  2020-03-29 · Tomasz Meresiński <hidden>
• STALE2624d [PATCH v4] net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.
  2019-05-21 · Felipe Gasper <hidden>
• STALE2626d [PATCH v3] net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.
  2019-05-19 · Felipe Gasper <hidden>
• STALE2628d [PATCH v2] net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.
  2019-05-18 · Felipe Gasper <hidden>
• STALE2629d [PATCH] Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.
  2019-05-17 · Felipe <hidden>
• STALE2700d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH 13/19] net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files
  2019-02-11 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
• STALE2700d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 05/19] Add io_uring IO interface
  2019-02-11 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
• STALE2725d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH 13/19] net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files
  2019-02-09 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
• STALE2725d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 05/19] Add io_uring IO interface
  2019-02-09 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>