networking [unix sockets] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

Paths

• F include/net/af_unix.h
• F include/net/netns/unix.h
• F include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h
• F net/unix/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING9d [RFC PATCH 3/3] coredump, net: remove `SOCK_COREDUMP`
  2026-07-03 · John Ericson <hidden>
• COOLING9d [RFC PATCH 2/3] af_unix: factor out kernel_unix_connect_direct()
  2026-07-03 · John Ericson <hidden>
• COOLING9d [RFC PATCH 1/3] af_unix: factor out unix_lookup_bsd_path()
  2026-07-03 · John Ericson <hidden>
• STALE121d LANDED [PATCH v8 01/12] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-03-27 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH v7 01/11] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-03-23 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH v7 1/9] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-03-17 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH v6 1/9] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-03-15 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE138d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE150d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v6] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-02-19 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE137d [PATCH v5 1/9] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-02-15 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE167d Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-02-10 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH v4 1/6] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-02-08 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE173d Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Landlock: Implement scope control for pathname Unix sockets
  2026-02-03 · Tingmao Wang <hidden>
• STALE173d LANDED [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] selftests: net: Move some UAPI header inclusions after libc ones
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH v3 1/5] lsm: Add hook security_unix_find
  2026-01-19 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 1/5] lsm: Add hook unix_path_connect
  2026-01-10 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• STALE205d Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] lsm: Add hook unix_path_connect
  2026-01-01 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE205d Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] lsm: Add hook unix_path_connect
  2026-01-01 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE205d [RFC PATCH 1/1] lsm: Add hook unix_path_connect
  2025-12-31 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE203d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] selftests: complete kselftest include centralization
  2025-10-16 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests: Replace relative includes with non-relative for kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h
  2025-08-30 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH 2/2] selftests: Replace relative includes with non-relative for kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h
  2025-08-27 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE408d [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/4] af_unix: Pass skb to security_unix_may_send().
  2025-06-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE408d [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/4] af_unix: Call security_unix_may_send() in sendmsg() for all socket types
  2025-06-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE408d [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/4] af_unix: Don't pass struct socket to security_unix_may_send().
  2025-06-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE436d LANDED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v8 4/9] coredump: add coredump socket
  2025-05-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE442d [PATCH v7 5/9] pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP
  2025-05-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE442d [PATCH v7 4/9] coredump: add coredump socket
  2025-05-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE445d [PATCH v6 5/9] pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP
  2025-05-12 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.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.

• STALE167d Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] lsm: Add LSM hook security_unix_find
  2026-02-10 · Justin Suess <hidden>
• STALE138d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>