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)

• WARM1d [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 14:50 · 0 replies in 7d · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v3 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v3 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v3 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH RFC v2 10/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz() edge case
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH RFC v2 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH RFC v2 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4 2/3] net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally
  2026-08-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4 3/3] net: Const qualify network templated ctl_tables Arrays
  2026-08-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next v3 2/3] net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally
  2026-07-13 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next v3 3/3] net: Const qualify network templated ctl_tables Arrays
  2026-07-13 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE65d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH 5/6] net: Change CONFIG_INET to CONFIG_LEGACY_IP for IPv4-only code
  2026-04-01 · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 01/11 net-next v5] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-25 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE176d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 01/11 net-next v4] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-20 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 24 (23M) [PATCH 01/10 net-next v3] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-17 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE184d [PATCH 01/10 net-next v2] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE168d [PATCH 01/10 net-next] ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE468d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] socket: Rename sock_create_kern() to __sock_create_kern().
  2025-05-23 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE482d [PATCH v2 05/10] sctp: use skb_crc32c() instead of __skb_checksum()
  2025-05-19 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE483d [PATCH net-next 05/10] sctp: use skb_crc32c() instead of __skb_checksum()
  2025-05-11 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE562d [PATCH net-next 2/3] netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2025-02-19 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE572d [PATCH v1 1/9] sysctl: Fixes nf_conntrack_max bounds
  2025-01-27 · <hidden>
• STALE572d [PATCH v1 2/9] sysctl: Fixes nf_conntrack_expect_max bounds
  2025-01-27 · <hidden>
• STALE656d [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] bpf: allow to access bpf_prog during bpf_struct_access
  2024-10-24 · "D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
• STALE862d [PATCH net-next v6 6/8] netfilter: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2024-05-01 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE869d [PATCH v5 6/8] netfilter: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2024-04-26 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE868d [PATCH v4 6/8] netfilter: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2024-04-25 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE856d [PATCH v3 09/11] ipvs: constify ctl_table arguments of utility functions
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE856d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next v3 2/3] net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally
  2026-07-13 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next v3 3/3] net: Const qualify network templated ctl_tables Arrays
  2026-07-13 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4 2/3] net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally
  2026-08-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4 3/3] net: Const qualify network templated ctl_tables Arrays
  2026-08-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>