bonding driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
• F drivers/net/bonding/
• F include/net/bond*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH net] bonding: alb: re-check primary_is_promisc under RTNL in bond_alb_monitor
  2026-07-20 22:34 · 0 replies in 7d · Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] bonding: fix skb_under_panic in bond_ns_send() over stacked VLANs
  2026-07-19 23:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-20

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH net] bonding: alb: re-check primary_is_promisc under RTNL in bond_alb_monitor
  2026-07-20 · Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] bonding: fix skb_under_panic in bond_ns_send() over stacked VLANs
  2026-07-19 · Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] bonding: fix devconf_all NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH] bonding: fix devconf_all NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
  2026-07-06 · <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] net : bonding : Remove TODO comment about retrying setting the MAC
  2026-07-03 · Paritosh Potukuchi <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v2 2/2] bonding: reuse neigh_setup from slave neigh_parms
  2026-07-01 · Paritosh Potukuchi <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v4 net-next] bonding: no longer rely on RTNL in bond_fill_info()
  2026-06-29 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH net 4/4] selftests: bonding: add a test for VLAN propagation over a bonded real device
  2026-06-24 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH net-next] bonding: add sysfs interface for broadcast_neighbor
  2026-06-10 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH v3 net-next] bonding: no longer rely on RTNL in bond_fill_info()
  2026-06-10 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10] bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices
  2026-06-09 · Alexey Panov <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 net-next] drivers/net/bonding: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-08 · David Laight <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH v2 net] bonding: no longer rely on RTNL in bond_fill_info()
  2026-06-08 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/bonding: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/bonding: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH net-next] bonding: no longer rely on RTNL in bond_fill_info()
  2026-06-05 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v8 3/6] bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob
  2026-06-03 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v8 6/6] selftests: bonding: add test for lacp_strict mode
  2026-06-03 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v8 4/6] bonding: 3ad: fix carrier when no usable slaves
  2026-06-03 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH net v8 5/6] bonding: 3ad: fix mux port state on oper down
  2026-06-03 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH net] bonding: annotate data-races arcound churn variables
  2026-06-03 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH net-next v2 05/11] net: bonding: don't recurse on the slave's netdev ops lock
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH net-next] bonding: annotate data-races in sysfs and procfs
  2026-06-02 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH] net: bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in bond_do_ioctl()
  2026-06-01 · ZhaoJinming <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH] bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices
  2026-05-26 · Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v7 4/6] bonding: 3ad: fix carrier when no usable slaves
  2026-05-26 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v7 5/6] bonding: 3ad: fix mux port state on oper down
  2026-05-26 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v7 3/6] bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob
  2026-05-26 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v7 6/6] selftests: bonding: add test for lacp_strict mode
  2026-05-26 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net v6 3/4] bonding: 3ad: fix mux port state on oper down
  2026-05-20 · Louis Scalbert <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.

• STALE146d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCHv2 net-next 2/3] bonding: restructure ad_churn_machine
  2026-01-14 · Hangbin Liu <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 4/4] net: bonding: add the READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for outside lock accessing
  2026-01-18 · Tonghao Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net 1/2] net: bonding: fix type-confusion in bonding header_ops
  2026-02-05 · 戸田晃太 <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE153d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCHv2 net] bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
  2026-02-14 · Hangbin Liu <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCHv3 net 2/3] bonding: restructure ad_churn_machine
  2026-02-26 · Hangbin Liu <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net v2] bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()
  2026-03-06 · Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 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.

• STALE197d [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] net: bonding: skip the 2nd trylock when first one fail
  2025-12-29 · Tonghao Zhang <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCHv2 net-next 1/3] bonding: set AD_RX_PORT_DISABLED when disabling a port
  2026-01-14 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCHv2 net-next 3/3] selftests: bonding: add mux and churn state testing
  2026-01-14 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCHv3 net 3/3] selftests: bonding: add mux and churn state testing
  2026-02-26 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE139d Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: bonding: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
  2026-03-02 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE138d [PATCH net 2/2] bonding: handle BOND_LINK_FAIL, BOND_LINK_BACK as valid link states
  2026-03-04 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: use ndo_set_features to set offload features for bonding/bridge/team
  2026-03-10 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-10 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-13 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE125d [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-16 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>