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

• COLD50d [PATCH v4 4/4] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH v4 3/4] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 4/4] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH v3 3/4] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH v2 2/3] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-06-01 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH v2 3/3] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-06-01 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH 3/3] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-05-19 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH 2/3] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-05-19 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE88d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE132d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE132d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 108/110] net: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 052/110] net: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE149d [PATCH 54/61] net: update socket dname format for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE145d [PATCH 10/14] xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets
  2026-02-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE269d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH 5.15 024/123] splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops
  2025-10-27 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE283d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v2] memcg: net: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressure
  2025-10-16 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE281d [PATCH] memcg: net: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressure
  2025-10-16 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE100d [RFC PATCH] mm: net: disable kswapd for high-order network buffer allocation
  2025-10-13 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE340d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v5 net-next 10/10] net: Define sk_memcg under CONFIG_MEMCG.
  2025-08-15 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE340d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 net-next 09/10] net-memcg: Pass struct sock to mem_cgroup_sk_under_memory_pressure().
  2025-08-15 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE340d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v5 net-next 07/10] net-memcg: Introduce mem_cgroup_sk_enabled().
  2025-08-15 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE340d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v5 net-next 06/10] net-memcg: Introduce mem_cgroup_from_sk().
  2025-08-15 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE345d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 net-next 10/10] net: Define sk_memcg under CONFIG_MEMCG.
  2025-08-14 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE345d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 net-next 09/10] net-memcg: Pass struct sock to mem_cgroup_sk_under_memory_pressure().
  2025-08-14 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE345d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 net-next 07/10] net-memcg: Introduce mem_cgroup_sk_enabled().
  2025-08-14 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE345d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 net-next 06/10] net-memcg: Introduce mem_cgroup_from_sk().
  2025-08-14 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE346d [PATCH v3 net-next 11/12] net-memcg: Store MEMCG_SOCK_ISOLATED in sk->sk_memcg.
  2025-08-12 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE346d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 net-next 10/12] net: Define sk_memcg under CONFIG_MEMCG.
  2025-08-12 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

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.

• STALE149d [PATCH 54/61] net: update socket dname format for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 052/110] net: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 108/110] net: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE132d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH 2/3] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-05-19 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH 3/3] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-05-19 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH v2 2/3] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-06-01 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH v2 3/3] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-06-01 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH v3 3/4] simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 4/4] simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache
  2026-06-05 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>