network block device (nbd) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst
• F drivers/block/nbd.c
• F include/trace/events/nbd.h
• F include/uapi/linux/nbd.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD45d [PATCH] nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency
  2026-06-13 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH 5/5] nbd: Use lock_sock_try() for TCP sendmsg() and shutdown().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Reject unconnected sockets in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH 1/5] nbd: Remove redundant sock->ops->shutdown() check in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net v1] net/ipv6: mcast: fix circular locking dependency in __ipv6_dev_mc_inc()
  2026-03-23 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE248d [PATCH] nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP
  2025-09-09 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE324d Re: [syzbot] [net?] possible deadlock in inet_shutdown
  2025-09-05 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE925d LANDED [PATCH net] nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely
  2024-01-12 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE1304d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v4 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-12-16 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1323d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v3 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-12-13 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1326d [PATCH net v2 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-12-09 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1329d [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-11-21 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1431d [PATCH net-next] genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes
  2022-08-25 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2126d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v3 3/9] genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible
  2020-10-02 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2127d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible
  2020-10-01 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2128d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next 3/9] genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible
  2020-10-01 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2128d [RFC net-next 4/9] genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible
  2020-10-01 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] nbd: allocate sufficient space for NBD_CMD_STATUS
  2020-06-18 · Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
• STALE2233d [PATCH] nbd: allocate sufficient space for NBD_CMD_STATUS
  2020-06-18 · Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
• STALE2651d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v5 2/5] nbd: trace sending nbd requests
  2019-04-26 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2651d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v5 3/5] nbd: add tracepoints for send/receive timing
  2019-04-26 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2650d [PATCH v2 2/5] netlink: make validation more configurable for future strictness
  2019-04-26 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE2650d [PATCH v2 5/5] genetlink: optionally validate strictly/dumps
  2019-04-26 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE2651d [PATCH net-next 1/3] netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag
  2019-04-26 · Michal Kubecek <hidden>
• STALE2653d [RFC PATCH net-next 1/3] netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag
  2019-04-24 · Michal Kubecek <hidden>
• STALE2654d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v4 3/5] nbd: add tracepoints for send/receive timing
  2019-04-24 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2654d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH bpf-next v4 2/5] nbd: trace sending nbd requests
  2019-04-24 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2656d [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/5] nbd: trace sending nbd requests
  2019-04-19 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2656d [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/5] nbd: add tracepoints for send/receive timing
  2019-04-19 · Matt Mullins <hidden>
• STALE2670d [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/5] nbd: add tracepoints for send/receive timing
  2019-04-05 · Matt Mullins <hidden>

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: [PATCH net v1] net/ipv6: mcast: fix circular locking dependency in __ipv6_dev_mc_inc()
  2026-03-23 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH 1/5] nbd: Remove redundant sock->ops->shutdown() check in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Reject unconnected sockets in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>