networking [ipv4/ipv6] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
• M Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
• F Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-neigh.yaml
• F Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-route.yaml
• F Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-rule.yaml
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/mroute*
• F include/net/addrconf.h
• F include/net/arp.h
• F include/net/fib*
• F include/net/if_inet6.h
• F include/net/inetpeer.h
• F include/net/ip*
• F include/net/lwtunnel.h
• F include/net/ndisc.h
• F include/net/netns/nexthop.h
• F include/net/nexthop.h
• F include/net/route.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fib_rules.h
• F include/uapi/linux/in_route.h
• F include/uapi/linux/mroute*
• F include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
• F net/core/fib*
• F net/core/lwtunnel.c
• F net/ipv4/arp.c
• F net/ipv4/devinet.c
• F net/ipv4/fib*
• F net/ipv4/icmp.c
• F net/ipv4/igmp.c
• F net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c
• F net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
• F net/ipv4/ip*
• F net/ipv4/metrics.c
• F net/ipv4/netlink.c
• F net/ipv4/nexthop.c
• F net/ipv4/route.c
• F net/ipv6/addr*
• F net/ipv6/anycast.c
• F net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
• F net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
• F net/ipv6/fib*
• F net/ipv6/icmp.c
• F net/ipv6/ip*
• F net/ipv6/mcast*
• F net/ipv6/ndisc.c
• F net/ipv6/output_core.c
• F net/ipv6/reassembly.c
• F net/ipv6/route.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/fib*
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 00/10] ipv6: report why a route was deleted in RTM_DELROUTE
  2026-07-29 12:08 · 9 replies in 7d · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6] ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()
  2026-07-29 09:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1] ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()
  2026-07-29 09:08 · 0 replies in 7d · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation
  2026-07-29 03:48 · 0 replies in 7d · Yuejie Shi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nexthop: account nexthop allocations to memcg
  2026-07-28 06:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net 0/1] ipv4: fix divide-by-zero from undersized RTAX_ADVMSS
  2026-07-28 05:08 · 1 reply in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv4: nexthop: handle errors in nexthop_init()
  2026-07-28 03:11 · 0 replies in 7d · Minhong He <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net 0/1] inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer
  2026-07-27 17:23 · 1 reply in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 1/2 net-next v2] ipv4: remove unnecessary reset of position pointer
  2026-07-27 09:18 · 0 replies in 7d · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] net/ipv4: fix NULL pointer deref in nh_valid_get_del_req()
  2026-07-27 02:27 · 0 replies in 7d · luoqing <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-27
• <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-22
• Xiang Mei <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-29
• Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-29
• Vega <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-28
• David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-24
• Muhammad Ziad <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-22
• Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-19
• Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-10

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 09/10] netlink: specs: rt-route: add the route deletion reason
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 08/10] netlink: specs: rt-route: split out the request attribute list
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 07/10] netlink: specs: rt-route: add route notifications
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 06/10] ipv6: add inet6_rt_del_notify()
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 05/10] ipv6: expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 04/10] ipv6: add a deletion reason argument to rt6_fill_node()
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 03/10] ipv6: record the reason for kernel-initiated route deletions
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 02/10] ipv6: propagate the route deletion reason to fib6_del_route()
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 01/10] ipv6: add ip6_del_rt_reason()
  2026-07-29 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6] ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()
  2026-07-29 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1] ipv6: ndisc: fix NULL deref in accept_untracked_na()
  2026-07-29 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation
  2026-07-29 · Yuejie Shi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nexthop: account nexthop allocations to memcg
  2026-07-28 · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net 1/1] ipv4: reject RTAX_ADVMSS values below TCP_MIN_MSS
  2026-07-28 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] ipv4: nexthop: handle errors in nexthop_init()
  2026-07-28 · Minhong He <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net 1/1] inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer
  2026-07-27 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 1/2 net-next v2] ipv4: remove unnecessary reset of position pointer
  2026-07-27 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] net/ipv4: fix NULL pointer deref in nh_valid_get_del_req()
  2026-07-27 · luoqing <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] ipv6: report why a route was deleted in RTM_DELROUTE
  2026-07-25 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: do not send ICMP/NDISC Redirects when peer allocation fails
  2026-07-24 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/3] vxlan: honor per-nexthop fdb destination port
  2026-07-24 · Jack Ma <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH net-next v5 1/3] net: nexthop: add NHA_DST_PORT for fdb nexthops
  2026-07-24 · Jack Ma <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] net/ipv6: leave a note on subtree/nexthop objects
  2026-07-23 · David 'equinox' Lamparter <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] net/ipv6: create ipv6_fl_get_saddr
  2026-07-23 · David 'equinox' Lamparter <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v2 02/10] net/ipv6: flatten ip6_route_get_saddr
  2026-07-23 · David 'equinox' Lamparter <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net] net: ipv4: do not send ICMP Redirect when peer allocation fails
  2026-07-23 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] ipv6: report why a route was deleted in RTM_DELROUTE
  2026-07-23 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH iproute2-next v2 1/2] uapi: add NHA_DST_PORT
  2026-07-23 · Jack Ma <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] vxlan: honor per-nexthop fdb destination port
  2026-07-23 · Jack Ma <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] net: nexthop: add NHA_DST_PORT for fdb nexthops
  2026-07-23 · Jack Ma <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.

• STALE177d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/2] icmp: fix ICMP error source address when xfrm policy matches
  2026-01-28 · Antony Antony <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v2 2/2] selftests: forwarding: bridge_mdb_max: add tests for mdb_n_entries warning
  2026-02-13 · Nikolay Aleksandrov <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] ipv6: annotate data-races over sysctl.flowlabel_reflect
  2026-02-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] ipv6: exthdrs: annotate data-race over multiple sysctl
  2026-02-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.6] ipv4: igmp: annotate data-races around idev->mr_maxdelay
  2026-02-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] ipv6: annotate data-races in net/ipv6/route.c
  2026-02-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE160d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 net 3/5] ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
  2026-02-16 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE160d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 net 4/5] ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero
  2026-02-16 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE160d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 net 5/5] ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero
  2026-02-16 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] icmp: fix ICMP error source address when xfrm policy matches
  2026-02-26 · Antony Antony <hidden> · 1 Acked-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.

• STALE197d [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] ipv6: Check of max HBH or DestOp sysctl is zero and drop if it is
  2026-01-08 · Tom Herbert <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH net-next v2 01/11] net/ipv6: Introduce payload_len helpers
  2026-01-13 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: annotate data-races over sysctl.flowlabel_reflect
  2026-01-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE191d [PATCH net-next 7/8] ipv6: exthdrs: annotate data-race over multiple sysctl
  2026-01-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE191d [PATCH net-next 8/8] ipv6: annotate data-races in net/ipv6/route.c
  2026-01-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE189d [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] ipv6: Check of max HBH or DestOp sysctl is zero and drop if it is
  2026-01-19 · Tom Herbert <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] ipv6: Enforce Extension Header ordering
  2026-01-19 · Tom Herbert <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 1/6] selftests: forwarding: lib: skip test if team driver is not supported
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 2/6] selftests: forwarding: sch_ets: skip test if cls_basic module is missing
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 3/6] selftests: forwarding: lib: add run_cmd_grep helper for feature probing
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>