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 17 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev, ordered by date desc.

• [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v5 3/4] scm: Convert put_cmsg() to scoped user access
  2025-11-17 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 03/10] uaccess: Use masked_user_{read/write}_access_begin when required
  2025-11-06 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 03/10] uaccess: Add masked_user_{read/write}_access_begin
  2025-10-17 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH 3/3] sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW
  2019-01-08 · Deepa Dinamani <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/3] socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes
  2019-01-08 · Deepa Dinamani <hidden>
• [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
  2015-03-11 · Sasha Levin <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 net-next] fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq
  2013-10-04 · Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/2] fs: use inode_set_user to set uid/gid of inode
  2013-08-23 · Rui Xiang <hidden>
• [PATCH] net: Unbreak compat_sys_{send,recv}msg
  2013-06-06 · Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
• [PATCH V2] wanrouter: Remove it and the drivers that depend on it
  2012-11-13 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• [PATCH] wanrouter: Remove it and the drivers that depend on it
  2012-11-10 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

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.

• [PATCH v5 3/4] scm: Convert put_cmsg() to scoped user access
  2025-11-17 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>