networking [general] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• R Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst
• F Documentation/netlink/
• F Documentation/networking/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/
• F Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
• F Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/
• F include/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer-provider.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer.h
• F include/linux/in.h
• F include/linux/in6.h
• F include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
• F include/linux/inet.h
• F include/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/linux/net.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/linux/netlink.h
• F include/linux/netpoll.h
• F include/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/linux/sctp.h
• F include/linux/seq_file_net.h
• F include/linux/skbuff*
• F include/net/
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/hsr_netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/in.h
• F include/uapi/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/nbd-netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net_namespace.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netconf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
• F lib/net_utils.c
• F lib/random32.c
• F net/
• F samples/pktgen/
• F tools/net/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/
• X Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/
• X Documentation/networking/regulatory.rst
• X include/net/bluetooth/
• X include/net/cfg80211.h
• X include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
• X include/net/iw_handler.h
• X include/net/mac80211.h
• X include/net/wext.h
• X net/9p/
• X net/batman-adv/
• X net/bluetooth/
• X net/can/
• X net/ceph/
• X net/mac80211/
• X net/rfkill/
• X net/wireless/
• X tools/testing/selftests/net/can/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next V10 00/14] devlink and mlx5: Support cross-function rate scheduling
  2026-07-01 07:36 · 8 replies in 7d · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v13 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing
  2026-07-01 11:05 · 4 replies in 7d · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 0/9] netfilter: updates for net
  2026-06-30 04:53 · 9 replies in 7d · Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: hold instance lock around NETDEV_DOWN and NETDEV_GOING_DOWN
  2026-06-30 18:21 · 5 replies in 7d · Stanislav Fomichev <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1 net-next 00/10] net: fib_rules: RTNL-less RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE.
  2026-06-29 18:12 · 10 replies in 7d · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] af_unix: Fix priority inversion issue
  2026-07-01 16:36 · 2 replies in 7d · Nam Cao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/2] sit: prepare for RTNL-less link dumping
  2026-07-01 15:51 · 2 replies in 7d · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: L2 bridge offload
  2026-06-30 06:58 · 5 replies in 7d · Daniel Pawlik <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net: convert UDP getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-06-30 14:02 · 4 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: reject interval-end get for open intervals
  2026-07-01 19:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  39 attestations (39 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  39 attestations (39 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  29 attestations (29 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  29 attestations (29 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
  24 attestations (23 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• Xiao Liang <hidden>
  22 attestations (22 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-12
• Zhengchuan Liang <hidden>
  21 attestations (21 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Gang Yan <hidden>
  17 attestations (17 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-22
• Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
  17 attestations (13 Reviewed-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-22
• Xiang Mei <hidden>
  17 attestations (12 Reported-by, 5 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-17

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: reject interval-end get for open intervals
  2026-07-01 · Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] net: devmem: allow rx-buf-size > PAGE_SIZE per dmabuf binding
  2026-07-01 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] mac802154: remove interfaces with RCU list deletion
  2026-07-01 · Yousef Alhouseen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] af_unix: Do not wait for garbage collector in sendmsg()
  2026-07-01 · Nam Cao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] af_unix: Clean up unix_schedule_gc()
  2026-07-01 · Nam Cao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: act_pedit: fix TOCTOU heap OOB write in tc offload
  2026-07-01 · Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 6/9] net: of_net: Add of_get_nvmem_eui48() helper for EUI-48 lookup
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next 2/2] sit: no longer rely on RTNL in ipip6_fill_info()
  2026-07-01 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 1/2] ip_tunnel: use WRITE_ONCE in ip_tunnel_encap_setup
  2026-07-01 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v11 2/2] net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag
  2026-07-01 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] net/packet: avoid fanout hook re-registration after unregister
  2026-07-01 · David Lee <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v13 10/10] Documentation: networking: Update the phy_port infrastructure description
  2026-07-01 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v13 09/10] net: ethtool: Introduce ethtool command to list ports
  2026-07-01 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v13 08/10] netlink: specs: Add ethernet port listing with ethtool
  2026-07-01 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v13 02/10] net: phy: phy_link_topology: Track ports in phy_link_topology
  2026-07-01 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] selftests: mptcp: mptcp_diag: fix stack buffer overflow in get_subflow_info()
  2026-07-01 · Jiangshan Yi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH nf v2] netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop
  2026-07-01 · Zhixing Chen <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/3] drm/drm_ras: Add drm_ras netlink error event
  2026-07-01 · Riana Tauro <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v3 2/2] i40e: add devlink parameter for Flow Director ATR sample rate
  2026-07-01 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/2] net: neighbour: add neigh_parms_lookup_dev() helper
  2026-07-01 · Paritosh Potukuchi <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 14/14] net/mlx5: Document devlink rates
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 07/14] devlink: Allow rate node parents from other devlinks
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 03/14] devlink: Migrate from info->user_ptr to info->ctx
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 06/14] devlink: Allow parent dev for rate-set and rate-new
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 05/14] devlink: Add parent dev to devlink API
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 04/14] devlink: Decouple rate storage from associated devlink object
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 02/14] devlink: Add a helper for getting a nested-in instance
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 01/14] devlink: Update nested instance locking comment
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipvs: fix PMTU for GUE/GRE tunnel ICMP errors
  2026-07-01 · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 6.6.y/6.12.y/6.18.y] af_unix: Set gc_in_progress to true in unix_gc().
  2026-07-01 · Igor Ushakov <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.

• STALE183d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3 2/2] selftests: fib_test: Add test case for ipv4 multi nexthops
  2025-12-21 · Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 03/13] virtio: set skb owner of virtio_transport_reset_no_sock() reply
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [Patch net v6 1/8] net_sched: Check the return value of qfq_choose_next_agg()
  2025-12-27 · Cong Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [Patch bpf-next v5 1/4] skmsg: rename sk_msg_alloc() to sk_msg_expand()
  2025-12-28 · Cong Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [Patch bpf-next v5 4/4] tcp_bpf: improve ingress redirection performance with message corking
  2025-12-28 · Cong Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next, v6] net: mana: Implement ndo_tx_timeout and serialize queue resets per port.
  2026-01-03 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/6] net/sched: sch_cake: Factor out config variables into separate struct
  2026-01-05 · Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v5 5/6] net/sched: sch_cake: share shaper state across sub-instances of cake_mq
  2026-01-05 · Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: Bring back tool() to driver __init__s
  2026-01-05 · Gal Pressman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next] ethtool: Clarify len/n_stats fields in/out semantics
  2026-01-05 · Gal Pressman <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.

• STALE180d [PATCH 2/2] netrom: fix reference count leak in nr_rt_device_down
  2025-12-04 · Junjie Cao <hidden>
• STALE209d [PATCH 08/13] selftests: net: netlink-dumps: Avoid uninitialized variable error
  2025-12-04 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE209d [PATCH 13/13] selftests: net: tfo: Fix build error seen with -Werror
  2025-12-04 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE206d [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: gro: set the transport header later
  2025-12-05 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• STALE206d Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: gro: avoid relaying on skb->transport_header at receive time
  2025-12-05 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2 06/13] selftest: af_unix: Support compilers without flex-array-member-not-at-end support
  2025-12-05 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2 10/13] selftests: net: Fix build warnings
  2025-12-05 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2 13/13] selftests: net: tfo: Fix build warning
  2025-12-05 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE192d [PATCH 7/7] netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  2025-12-07 · Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
• STALE205d [PATCH nf-next 1/5] netfilter: Introduce tunnel metadata info in nf_flowtable_ctx struct
  2025-12-07 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>