openvswitch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
• M Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• M Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
• F include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
• F net/openvswitch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure
  2026-07-27 12:10 · 0 replies in 7d · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v6 0/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 2 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v4] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()
  2026-07-25 04:31 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM3d Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d Linux 5.10.261
  2026-07-24 15:05 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d Linux 5.15.212
  2026-07-24 15:05 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v3] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()
  2026-07-23 23:38 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length before key_extract()
  2026-07-23 04:23 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length before key_extract()
  2026-07-21 14:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-25

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure
  2026-07-27 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v4] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()
  2026-07-25 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-24 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v6 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key parsing to ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-07-24 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.261
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.212
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v3] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()
  2026-07-23 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length before key_extract()
  2026-07-23 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net] net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length before key_extract()
  2026-07-21 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-15 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net 2/7] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-07 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: conntrack: annotate ct limit hlist traversal
  2026-06-24 · Runyu Xiao <hidden>
• COLD38d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.143
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.94
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD38d Re: Linux 6.1.176
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.210
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.259
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH net-next v4 4/4] net: openvswitch: avoid double-rcu wait period
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] net: openvswitch: decouple flow_table from ovs_mutex
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net-next v4 2/4] net: openvswitch: add per-flow_table lockdep checks
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net-next v4 1/4] net: openvswitch: make flow_table an rcu pointer
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-04 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD56d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE128d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 net-next] net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-07 · David Carlier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE73d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-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 Re: Linux 6.18.3
  2026-01-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.64
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.4
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE197d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE188d Re: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix data race in ovs_vport_get_upcall_stats
  2026-01-19 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE186d [PATCH 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-27 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>