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)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v4] bonding: fix slave_cnt leak on XDP error paths
  2026-09-14 03:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] bonding: alb: Fix overflow in TLB gap calculation
  2026-09-13 12:59 · 0 replies in 7d · lirongqing <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• David Dai <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-03
• Hangbin Liu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-03
• Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v4] bonding: fix slave_cnt leak on XDP error paths
  2026-09-14 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] bonding: alb: Fix overflow in TLB gap calculation
  2026-09-13 · lirongqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net] selftests/drivers/net: include lib/sh/*.sh
  2026-09-07 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net v3] bonding: fix slave_cnt leak on XDP error paths
  2026-09-07 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/1] bonding: crypto offload enabled, non-offload slave failover, rekey failed
  2026-09-03 · David Dai <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: use skb_cow_head() in bond_do_alb_xmit() and rlb_arp_xmit()
  2026-09-03 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v2] bonding: fix slave_cnt leak on XDP error paths
  2026-09-03 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH net] bonding: use skb_cow_head() in bond_do_alb_xmit() and rlb_arp_xmit()
  2026-09-02 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net] bonding: fix slave_cnt leak on XDP error paths
  2026-09-02 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net-next 01/10] bonding: do not assume mac header is set in ALB/TLB tx paths
  2026-09-02 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH net] bonding: do not clear curr_active_slave prematurely when releasing all slaves
  2026-08-31 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net] bonding: alb: fix uninitialized transport header access in alb_determine_nd()
  2026-08-31 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] bonding: reject IEEE 802.15.4 devices in bond_enslave
  2026-08-31 · Jiale Yao <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net] bonding: avoid ARP flood on RTNL contention in active-backup mode
  2026-08-31 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net] net: bonding: annotate lockless writes with WRITE_ONCE()
  2026-08-31 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v6 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-31 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v6 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state
  2026-08-31 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net v2] bonding: fix initial last_rx vs ARP-monitor slack window
  2026-08-27 · Ramses de Norre <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v5 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-25 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v5 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state
  2026-08-25 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH net 1/2] bonding: reject frames with insufficient headroom in bond_header_create
  2026-08-24 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v4 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-20 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v4 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state
  2026-08-20 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 6.1.y] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()
  2026-08-19 · Artem Dinaburg <hidden>
• COLD26d Re: [PATCH net v3 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-19 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v3 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-18 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v3 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state
  2026-08-18 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH net] bonding: fix initial last_rx vs ARP-monitor slack window
  2026-08-17 · r-vdp <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH 2/2] bonding: 3ad: use RCU_INIT_POINTER for rcu pointer initialization
  2026-08-17 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH 1/2] bonding: 3ad: fix NULL pointer dereference in ad_mux_machine()
  2026-08-17 · Hangbin Liu <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.

• STALE188d 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
• STALE181d 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
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v6 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state
  2026-08-31 · Hangbin Liu <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v6 2/2] bonding: fix u32 overflow in compute_gap()
  2026-08-31 · Hangbin Liu <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.

• STALE166d [PATCHv3 net 3/3] selftests: bonding: add mux and churn state testing
  2026-02-26 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE192d Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: bonding: Fix nd_tbl NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled
  2026-03-02 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH net 2/2] bonding: handle BOND_LINK_FAIL, BOND_LINK_BACK as valid link states
  2026-03-04 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: use ndo_set_features to set offload features for bonding/bridge/team
  2026-03-10 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-10 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-13 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: no need to disable LRO specifically
  2026-03-16 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH net v2 2/3] bonding: 3ad: fix mux port state on oper down
  2026-03-25 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• STALE165d [PATCH net v2 3/3] bonding: 3ad: fix stuck negotiation on recovery
  2026-03-25 · Louis Scalbert <hidden>
• STALE164d [PATCH net-next v4 14/14] selftests: net: use ip commands instead of teamd in team rx_mode test
  2026-04-01 · Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>