networking [sockets] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• M Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/sock_diag.h
• F include/linux/socket.h
• F include/linux/sockptr.h
• F include/net/sock.h
• F include/net/sock_reuseport.h
• F include/uapi/linux/socket.h
• F net/core/*sock*
• F net/core/scm.c
• F net/socket.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE107d [PATCH 3/5] net: Introduce lock_sock_try().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE236d [PATCH v5 3/4] scm: Convert put_cmsg() to scoped user access
  2025-11-17 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE237d [PATCH v4 03/10] uaccess: Use masked_user_{read/write}_access_begin when required
  2025-11-06 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH v3 03/10] uaccess: Add masked_user_{read/write}_access_begin
  2025-10-17 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE1129d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH net-next v6 04/14] splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops
  2023-06-07 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1131d [PATCH net-next v5 04/14] splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops
  2023-06-07 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1133d [PATCH net-next v4 04/11] splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops
  2023-06-05 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1103d LANDED [PATCH v22 13/31] net: Make sock_splice_read() use copy_splice_read() by default
  2023-05-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1103d [PATCH v21 13/30] net: Make sock_splice_read() use copy_splice_read() by default
  2023-05-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1122d [PATCH v20 10/32] net: Make sock_splice_read() use direct_splice_read() by default
  2023-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1364d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1372d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1373d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1373d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1369d [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE2107d [PATCH v10 2/7] net: add WARN_ONCE in kernel_sendpage() for improper zero-copy send
  2020-10-02 · Coly Li <hidden>
• STALE2109d [PATCH v9 2/7] net: add WARN_ONCE in kernel_sendpage() for improper zero-copy send
  2020-10-01 · Coly Li <hidden>
• STALE2114d [PATCH v8 2/7] net: add WARN_ONCE in kernel_sendpage() for improper zero-copy send
  2020-09-25 · Coly Li <hidden>
• STALE2118d Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] net: introduce helper sendpage_ok() in include/linux/net.h
  2020-08-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 09/33] net: add sock_set_reuseport
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 33/33] net: remove kernel_getsockopt
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 31/33] net: remove kernel_setsockopt
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 08/33] net: add sock_set_rcvbuf
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 06/33] net: add sock_set_timestamps
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 04/33] net: add sock_set_sndtimeo
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 03/33] net: add sock_set_priority
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 07/33] net: add sock_set_keepalive
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 05/33] net: add sock_bindtoindex
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2244d [PATCH 02/33] net: add sock_set_linger
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.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.

• STALE107d [PATCH 3/5] net: Introduce lock_sock_try().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>