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)

• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 0/6] Add IPv4 over IPv6 and SIT flowtable SW acceleration
  2026-07-09 08:54 · 6 replies in 7d · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-30

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH nf-next v5 4/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 2/6] net: netfilter: add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 6/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: add SIT flowtable selftest
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 5/6] net: netfilter: add SIT tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 3/6] net: netfilter: add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH nf-next v5 1/6] net: netfilter: add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 6/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add SIT flowtable selftest
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 5/6] net: netfilter: Add SIT tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 4/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 3/6] net: netfilter: Add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 2/6] net: netfilter: Add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH nf-next v4 1/6] net: netfilter: Add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
  2026-06-30 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
  2026-06-29 · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH nf-next v3 5/6] net: netfilter: Add SIT tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH nf-next v3 6/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add SIT flowtable selftest
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH nf-next v3 3/6] net: netfilter: Add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH nf-next v3 4/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH nf-next v3 2/6] net: netfilter: Add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH nf-next v3 1/6] net: netfilter: Add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-05-31 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 net] netfilter: flowtable: fix offloaded ct timeout never being extended
  2026-05-28 · Adrian Bente <hidden>
• COLD46d Re: [RFC PATCH net] netfilter: flowtable: fix offloaded ct timeout never being extended
  2026-05-27 · Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 6/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add SIT flowtable selftest
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 5/6] net: netfilter: Add SIT tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 4/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 3/6] net: netfilter: Add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 nf-next] netfilter: nft_flow_offload: Add DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA to nft_dev_path_info()
  2026-03-17 · Eric Woudstra <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE94d [PATCH RFC net-next 2/4] nf_flow_table: track sub-interface and bridge ifindex in flow tuple
  2026-04-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH RFC net-next 3/4] nf_flow_table: convert hw byte counts and update sub-interface stats
  2026-04-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH nf-next 1/4] net: netfilter: Add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-05-05 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH nf-next 2/4] net: netfilter: Add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel
  2026-05-05 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH nf-next 3/4] net: netfilter: Add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-05 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH nf-next 4/4] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-05-05 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 1/6] net: netfilter: Add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 2/6] net: netfilter: Add encap_proto to flow_offload_tunnel
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 3/6] net: netfilter: Add IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel flowtable acceleration
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH nf-next v2 4/6] selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPv4 over IPv6 flowtable selftest
  2026-05-06 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>