mac80211 · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• F Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/mac80211_hwsim.rst
• F drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim*.[ch]
• F include/net/mac80211.h
• F net/mac80211/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH 0/8] wifi: fix PMSR lifetime and frame validation issues
  2026-07-08 20:00 · 2 replies in 7d · Zhao Li <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v6 0/4] wifi: nl80211: introduce PROBE_PEER for AP and STA
  2026-07-09 11:42 · 1 reply in 7d · Priyansha Tiwari <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix cryptographic MAC comparison to be constant-time
  2026-07-09 02:45 · 0 replies in 7d · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/3] wifi: cfg80211: validate rx/tx MLME callback frame lengths before access
  2026-07-07 02:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Zhao Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect
  2026-07-06 19:38 · 0 replies in 7d · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: Route (Re)association req/response to per-STA queue
  2026-07-06 19:29 · 0 replies in 7d · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: recalculate rx_nss on IBSS peer capability update
  2026-07-06 19:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: recalculate rx_nss on IBSS peer capability update
  2026-07-06 19:00 · 0 replies in 7d · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v3] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()
  2026-07-06 14:35 · 0 replies in 7d · Dawei Feng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: free AP_VLAN bc_buf SKBs outside IRQ lock
  2026-07-06 14:08 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Johannes Berg <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Weiming Shi <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-21
• Zilin Guan <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-28
• Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-27
• Kaixuan Li <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-27
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v6 3/4] wifi: mac80211: implement STA-mode peer probing
  2026-07-09 · Priyansha Tiwari <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix cryptographic MAC comparison to be constant-time
  2026-07-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 6/8] wifi: mac80211: validate S1G TWT params before driver setup
  2026-07-08 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 5/8] wifi: mac80211: validate probe response countdown offsets
  2026-07-08 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2 3/3] wifi: mac80211: validate deauth frame length before reason access
  2026-07-07 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect
  2026-07-06 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: Route (Re)association req/response to per-STA queue
  2026-07-06 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: recalculate rx_nss on IBSS peer capability update
  2026-07-06 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: recalculate rx_nss on IBSS peer capability update
  2026-07-06 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v3] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()
  2026-07-06 · Dawei Feng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: free AP_VLAN bc_buf SKBs outside IRQ lock
  2026-07-06 · Cen Zhang <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v2 2/2] wifi: mac80211: Pass MCST element value in ch_switch_started_notify
  2026-07-06 · Shashikala Prabhu <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: clear beaconing state in ieee80211_do_stop()
  2026-06-28 · Hojun Choi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()
  2026-06-28 · Dawei Feng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: defer link RX stats percpu free to RCU
  2026-06-27 · Maoyi Xie <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] wifi: mac80211: free ack status frame on TX header build failure
  2026-06-26 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: only accept IBSS channel switch from our own BSSID
  2026-06-23 · Yingjie Cao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless 2/2] wifi: mac80211: fix fils_discovery double free on alloc failure
  2026-06-21 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH wireless 1/2] wifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure
  2026-06-21 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 3/3] wifi: mac80211: validate deauth frame length before reason access
  2026-06-12 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] wifi: mac80211: avoid non-S1G AID fallback for S1G assoc
  2026-06-12 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: avoid non-S1G AID fallback for S1G assoc
  2026-06-12 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 1/2] wifi: mac80211: validate extension-frame layout before RX
  2026-06-11 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] [wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: allocate backup ieee80211_nan_sched_cfg off stack
  2026-06-11 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v5 3/4] wifi: mac80211: implement STA-mode peer probing
  2026-06-11 · Priyansha Tiwari <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v5 2/4] wifi: cfg80211/nl80211: add STA-mode peer probing
  2026-06-11 · Priyansha Tiwari <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v5 1/4] wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: rename probe_client to probe_peer
  2026-06-11 · Priyansha Tiwari <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: validate S1G beacon length before RX
  2026-06-10 · Zhao Li <hidden>
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-06-09 · Alexey Panov <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()
  2026-06-08 · Dawei Feng <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE182d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [RFC wireless-next 41/46] wifi: mac80211: allow add_key on NAN interfaces
  2026-01-07 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC wireless-next 44/46] wifi: mac80211: allow userspace TX/RX over NAN Data interfaces
  2026-01-07 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] wifi: mac80211: ocb: skip rx_no_sta when interface is not joined
  2026-01-07 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: parse all TTLM entries
  2026-01-11 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: correctly check if CSA is active
  2026-01-11 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: don't send an unused argument to ieee80211_check_combinations
  2026-01-11 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH iwlwifi] wifi: mac80211: don't increment crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt twice
  2026-01-18 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH iwlwifi] wifi: mac80211: ignore reserved bits in reconfiguration status
  2026-01-18 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH wireless-next 1/2] wifi: mac80211: Add EMLSR/EMLMR action frame parsing support
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> · 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH wireless-next 2/2] wifi: mac80211: Add drv_set_eml_op_mode driver callback
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> · 1 Tested-by

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] wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address
  2025-12-15 · Jouni Malinen <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH RFC wireless-next 09/13] wifi: mac80211: Add UHR capabilities to association/probe request for STA mode
  2025-12-16 · Karthikeyan Kathirvel <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH RFC wireless-next 10/13] wifi: mac80211: Handle station association response with UHR
  2025-12-16 · Karthikeyan Kathirvel <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH RFC wireless-next 12/13] wifi: cfg80211: support disabling UHR mode
  2025-12-16 · Karthikeyan Kathirvel <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH RFC wireless-next 11/13] wifi: mac80211: set UHR support flag in AP mode
  2025-12-16 · Karthikeyan Kathirvel <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: collect station statistics earlier when disconnect
  2025-12-22 · Baochen Qiang <hidden>
• STALE184d [PATCH wireless-next v2 6/9] wifi: mac80211: Check for MLE before appending in Authentication frame
  2026-01-05 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC] wifi: mac80211: Update mesh rate control per beacon to restore correct MCS
  2026-01-06 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• STALE176d [PATCH wireless-next v3 6/9] wifi: mac80211: Check for MLE before appending in Authentication frame
  2026-01-06 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>
• STALE176d [PATCH wireless-next v3 7/9] wifi: mac80211: add support for EPPKE authentication protocol in non-AP STA mode
  2026-01-06 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>