failover module · Supported

Maintainers

• M Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/failover.rst
• F include/net/failover.h
• F net/core/failover.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()
  2026-07-31 03:03 · 0 replies in 7d · Minhong He <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()
  2026-07-28 03:10 · 0 replies in 7d · Minhong He <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()
  2026-07-31 · Minhong He <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: failover: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in failover_init()
  2026-07-28 · Minhong He <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4] net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register
  2026-05-11 · <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3] net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register
  2026-05-07 · <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH net-next v4] net: core: failover: enforce mandatory ops and clean up redundant checks
  2026-03-02 · Zeeshan Ahmad <hidden>
• STALE153d [PATCH net v3] net: core: failover: fix NULL pointer dereference in failover_slave_register()
  2026-02-26 · Zeeshan Ahmad <hidden>
• STALE155d [PATCH net v2] net: core: failover: fix NULL pointer dereference in failover_slave_register()
  2026-02-26 · Zeeshan Ahmad <hidden>
• STALE155d [PATCH net-next v1] net: core: fix logical inconsistency in failover_slave_register()
  2026-02-19 · Zeeshan Ahmad <hidden>
• STALE492d [PATCH NET-PREV 38/51] failover: Link master and slave under nd_lock
  2025-03-22 · Kirill Tkhai <hidden>
• STALE1326d [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: failover: use IFF_NO_ADDRCONF flag to prevent ipv6 addrconf
  2022-12-09 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE1359d [PATCH net-next v3] net/core: Allow live renaming when an interface is up
  2022-11-07 · Andy Ren <hidden>
• STALE1362d [PATCH net-next v2] net/core: Allow live renaming when an interface is up
  2022-11-04 · Andy Ren <hidden>
• STALE1365d [PATCH net-next] net/core: Allow live renaming when an interface is up
  2022-11-03 · Andy Ren <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] net/core: Allow live renaming when an interface is up
  2022-11-03 · Andy Ren <hidden>
• STALE1512d LANDED [PATCH net-next] net: rename reference+tracking helpers
  2022-06-08 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE1688d [PATCH v3 net-next 21/23] net: failover: add net device refcount tracker
  2021-12-05 · Eric Dumazet <hidden>
• STALE1699d [PATCH v2 net-next 21/23] net: failover: add net device refcount tracker
  2021-12-03 · Eric Dumazet <hidden>
• STALE1815d [PATCH] net: core: Fix possible null-pointer dereference in failover_slave_register()
  2021-08-10 · Tuo Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/failover: remove redundant fops null check
  2020-08-09 · Gaurav Singh <hidden>
• STALE2668d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v8] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-04-09 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2670d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v7] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-04-08 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2670d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v6] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-04-03 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2688d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH net v2] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-03-07 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2705d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [RFC PATCH net] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-03-05 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2703d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [RFC PATCH net-next] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-03-05 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [RFC PATCH net-next] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
  2019-03-05 · Si-Wei Liu <hidden>
• STALE2971d [PATCH net] failover: eliminate callback hell
  2018-06-05 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• STALE2982d [PATCH net-next v12 1/5] net: Introduce generic failover module
  2018-05-24 · Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
• STALE2990d [PATCH net-next v11 1/5] net: Introduce generic failover module
  2018-05-22 · Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
• STALE3016d [PATCH v7 net-next 2/4] net: Introduce generic failover module
  2018-04-20 · Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>