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-crypto (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD27d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• COLD41d [PATCH 1/3] net: Remove support for AIO on sockets
  2026-05-23 · Demi Marie Obenour <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper
  2026-04-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
• STALE470d [RFC PATCH V3 01/43] rv64ilp32_abi: uapi: Reuse lp64 ABI interface
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE819d [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-15 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE830d [PATCH 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-04 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1113d LANDED [PATCH net-next v5 15/16] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-06-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1113d LANDED [PATCH net-next v5 16/16] net: Kill MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST
  2023-06-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1117d [PATCH net-next v4 15/15] net: Kill MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST
  2023-06-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1117d [PATCH net-next v4 14/15] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-06-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1103d [PATCH net-next v3 18/18] net: Kill MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST
  2023-06-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1103d [PATCH net-next v3 17/18] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-06-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1120d [PATCH net-next v2 17/17] net: Kill MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST
  2023-06-17 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1120d [PATCH net-next v2 16/17] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-06-17 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1123d [PATCH net-next 16/17] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-06-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1174d [PATCH v3 55/55] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-03-31 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1187d [RFC PATCH v2 48/48] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-03-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1208d [RFC PATCH 1/3] net: Drop the size argument from ->sendmsg()
  2023-03-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1208d [RFC PATCH 28/28] sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
  2023-03-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1351d [PATCH v3 08/36] net/tcp: Introduce TCP_AO setsockopt()s
  2022-10-27 · Dmitry Safonov <hidden>
• STALE1367d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1374d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1377d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1371d [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1387d [PATCH v2 08/35] net/tcp: Introduce TCP_AO setsockopt()s
  2022-09-23 · Dmitry Safonov <hidden>
• STALE1407d [PATCH 08/31] net/tcp: Introduce TCP_AO setsockopt()s
  2022-08-18 · Dmitry Safonov <hidden>
• STALE2119d [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 031/330] net: silence data-races on sk_backlog.tail
  2020-09-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE2125d [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 017/206] net: silence data-races on sk_backlog.tail
  2020-09-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD27d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH RESEND 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper
  2026-05-27 · Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by