openvswitch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
• M Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• M Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
• F include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
• F net/openvswitch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 000/484] 6.6.148-rc1 review
  2026-07-30 16:12 · 2 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 000/602] 6.12.101-rc1 review
  2026-07-30 15:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.18 000/675] 6.18.42-rc1 review
  2026-07-30 15:07 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 7.1 000/744] 7.1.6-rc1 review
  2026-07-30 14:32 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-30
• Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-30
• Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-30

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.6 356/484] openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow
  2026-07-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 170/484] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 201/602] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 249/675] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 7.1 278/744] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 5.10 268/699] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 5.15 359/843] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 6.1 0455/1067] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 6.6 0584/1266] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0376/1276] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 7.1 0772/2077] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 6.18 0533/1611] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.10 169/342] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 186/411] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.1 247/522] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.6 270/452] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 089/261] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.18 108/325] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 7.0 123/378] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10 432/589] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.15 571/776] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 699/969] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 328/508] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 466/666] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 658/957] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 7.0 0809/1146] openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 5.10 258/491] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-04-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 257/491] net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
  2026-04-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 5.15 325/570] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-04-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15 324/570] net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
  2026-04-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE164d [PATCH 6.6 241/737] netfilter: nf_conncount: rework API to use sk_buff directly
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH 6.1 174/634] netfilter: nf_conncount: rework API to use sk_buff directly
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE196d [PATCH 5.15 159/554] netfilter: nf_conncount: rework API to use sk_buff directly
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE189d [PATCH 5.10 112/451] netfilter: nf_conncount: rework API to use sk_buff directly
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>