netconsole · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst
• F drivers/net/netconsole.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/sh/lib_netcons.sh
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netconsole/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v4 0/7] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration
  2026-09-03 16:26 · 7 replies in 7d · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] netconsole: take target_cleanup_list_lock in drop_netconsole_target()
  2026-08-31 13:33 · 0 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  16 attestations (13 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-03

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 7/7] docs: netconsole: document local_ip auto-selection
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 6/7] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 5/7] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 4/7] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 3/7] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 2/7] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/7] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] netconsole: take target_cleanup_list_lock in drop_netconsole_target()
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 6/6] selftests: netcons: test the per-target rate limit
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 5/6] docs: netconsole: document rate limit feature
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 4/6] netconsole: tell the target when the rate limit drops messages
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 3/6] netconsole: allow configuring the rate limit burst through configfs
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 2/6] netconsole: allow configuring the rate limit interval through configfs
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next RFC 1/6] netconsole: add a per-target message rate limit
  2026-08-18 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] docs: netconsole: document local_ip auto-selection
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr
  2026-08-10 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] selftests: netconsole: add a userdata torture test
  2026-08-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] netconsole: publish the userdata payload with RCU
  2026-08-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 4/4] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  2026-08-05 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <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.

• STALE130d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v2 1/4] netconsole: return count instead of strnlen(buf, count) from store callbacks
  2026-04-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12] netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated
  2026-08-03 · Markus Boehme <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c
  2026-08-14 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <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.

• STALE130d [PATCH net v2 2/4] netconsole: avoid clobbering userdatum value on truncated write
  2026-04-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH net v2 3/4] netconsole: propagate device name truncation in dev_name_store()
  2026-04-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH net v2 4/4] netconsole: restore userdatum value on update_userdata() failure
  2026-04-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 2/8] netconsole: move netpoll_send_udp() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 3/8] netconsole: move push_ipv6() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 4/8] netconsole: move push_ipv4() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 5/8] netconsole: move push_eth() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 6/8] netconsole: move push_udp() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH net-next 7/8] netconsole: move netpoll_udp_checksum() from netpoll
  2026-05-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] netconsole: move push_ipv6() from netpoll
  2026-05-12 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>