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

• STALE100d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE100d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 108/110] net: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 052/110] net: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH 54/61] net: update socket dname format for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE136d [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: uapi: Provide an UAPI definition of 'struct sockaddr'
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE371d Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/4] af_unix: Allow BPF LSM to filter SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().
  2025-06-19 · Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• STALE408d [PATCH v6 4/9] coredump: add coredump socket
  2025-05-12 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE412d [PATCH v1 bpf-next 3/5] af_unix: Remove redundant scm->fp check in __scm_destroy().
  2025-05-05 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2] security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface
  2025-04-28 · Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
• STALE423d [PATCH] security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface
  2025-04-28 · Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
• STALE439d [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] net: Unexport shared functions for DCCP.
  2025-04-10 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE442d [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net: Unexport shared functions for DCCP.
  2025-04-09 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE525d [PATCH] net: Convert proto_ops::getname to sockaddr_storage
  2024-12-17 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE667d [PATCH net-next 12/13] net: Correct spelling in headers
  2024-08-22 · Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
• STALE702d [PATCH bpf-next v4 04/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook inode_listsecurity
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE800d [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-15 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE811d [PATCH 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-04 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE821d Re: [PATCH v12 1/9] security: Introduce ENOFILEOPS return value for IOCTL hooks
  2024-03-25 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE744d [PATCH 08/10] net: use new capable_any functionality
  2024-03-15 · Christian Göttsche <hidden>
• STALE1042d LANDED: 3 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v14 1/4] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-16 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1045d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH mptcp-next v13 1/4] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-12 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1053d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH mptcp-next v12 1/5] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-07 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1043d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v11 1/5] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-04 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1056d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH bpf-next v10 1/5] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-04 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1056d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH bpf-next v9 1/4] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-03 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1057d [PATCH bpf-next v8 1/4] bpf: Add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-08-03 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1057d [RFC bpf-next v7 1/6] net: socket: add update_socket_protocol hook
  2023-07-29 · Geliang Tang <hidden>
• STALE1063d [RFC bpf-next v6] bpf: Force to MPTCP
  2023-07-28 · Geliang Tang <hidden>

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.

• STALE136d [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: uapi: Provide an UAPI definition of 'struct sockaddr'
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 54/61] net: update socket dname format for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 052/110] net: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 108/110] net: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE100d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>