nfc subsystem · Maintained

Maintainers

• M David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/
• F drivers/nfc/
• F include/net/nfc/
• F include/uapi/linux/nfc.h
• F net/nfc/
• F tools/testing/selftests/nci/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/5] nfc: s3fwrn5: support the S3NRN4V variant
  2026-07-26 22:26 · 4 replies in 7d · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v3] nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in NFC-DEP general bytes
  2026-07-28 13:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Muhammad Bilal <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nfc: trf7970a: initialize lock and timeout_work before requesting the IRQ
  2026-07-28 03:11 · 0 replies in 7d · Fan Wu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] nfc: trf7970a: drain timeout_work and keep trf->lock valid across teardown
  2026-07-28 03:08 · 0 replies in 7d · Fan Wu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests: nci: Correct pthread_create return value check
  2026-07-27 03:16 · 0 replies in 7d · Lei Zhu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: fix NULL pointer dereference race in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame()
  2026-07-25 11:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Junwoong Doh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak
  2026-07-24 11:22 · 0 replies in 7d · Bryam Vargas <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] nfc: digital: fix use-after-free in nfc_digital_unregister_device()
  2026-07-23 17:45 · 0 replies in 7d · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v4] nfc: nci: Fix conn_info use-after-free
  2026-07-23 02:24 · 0 replies in 7d · Sanghyun Park <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] nfc: st-nci: drain se_info timers on remove before NCI teardown
  2026-07-22 03:48 · 0 replies in 7d · Fan Wu <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Xiang Mei <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-23
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (1 Reported-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-24
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-26
• David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-26
• David Laight <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-14

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v3] nfc: nci: fix use of uninitialized memory in NFC-DEP general bytes
  2026-07-28 · Muhammad Bilal <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nfc: trf7970a: initialize lock and timeout_work before requesting the IRQ
  2026-07-28 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] nfc: trf7970a: drain timeout_work and keep trf->lock valid across teardown
  2026-07-28 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] selftests: nci: Correct pthread_create return value check
  2026-07-27 · Lei Zhu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 4/5] nfc: s3fwrn5: support the S3NRN4V variant
  2026-07-26 · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 3/5] dt-bindings: net: nfc: samsung,s3fwrn5: add S3NRN4V and clk-req-gpios
  2026-07-26 · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 2/5] nfc: s3fwrn5: use the "s3fwrn5_i2c" string literal directly
  2026-07-26 · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/5] nfc: s3fwrn5: drop of_match_ptr() from the I2C driver
  2026-07-26 · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: fix NULL pointer dereference race in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame()
  2026-07-25 · Junwoong Doh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak
  2026-07-24 · Bryam Vargas <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] nfc: digital: fix use-after-free in nfc_digital_unregister_device()
  2026-07-23 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v4] nfc: nci: Fix conn_info use-after-free
  2026-07-23 · Sanghyun Park <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] nfc: st-nci: drain se_info timers on remove before NCI teardown
  2026-07-22 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net-next] nfc: digital: fix use-after-free in nfc_digital_unregister_device()
  2026-07-21 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] nfc: trf7970a: drain timeout_work and keep trf->lock valid across teardown
  2026-07-21 · Fan Wu <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net] nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection
  2026-07-21 · Linmao Li <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2] nfc: llcp: Fix nfc_dev refcount leak in connect
  2026-07-20 · Shuangpeng Bai <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: Fix list corruption / refcount desync in nfc_llcp_recv_dm()
  2026-07-16 · Aldo Ariel Panzardo <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v5 3/3] nfc: llcp: fix TLV parsing OOB in nfc_llcp_connect_sn
  2026-07-16 · Lekë Hapçiu <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v5 2/3] nfc: llcp: fix OOB read of DM reason byte in nfc_llcp_recv_dm
  2026-07-16 · Lekë Hapçiu <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v5 1/3] nfc: nci: fix u8 underflow in nci_store_general_bytes_nfc_dep
  2026-07-16 · Lekë Hapçiu <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v3] nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
  2026-07-14 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net] nfc: microread: validate CARD_FOUND event length before parsing targets
  2026-07-13 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v2] nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
  2026-07-13 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: Fix raw socket local ref leak on rebind
  2026-07-13 · Shuangpeng Bai <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net] nfc: port100: reject frames whose declared length exceeds the received data
  2026-07-11 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net] nfc: fdp: bound the device-supplied read size in fdp_nci_i2c_read()
  2026-07-11 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: guard against short PDUs in nfc_llcp_rx_skb()
  2026-07-11 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net] nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
  2026-07-11 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net] nfc: st21nfca: validate ATR_REQ length against the received frame
  2026-07-11 · Doruk Tan Ozturk <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.

• STALE146d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3] NFC: s3fwrn5: Replace strcpy() with strscpy()
  2026-03-02 · <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6] nfc: hci: fix out-of-bounds read in HCP header parsing
  2026-05-02 · Ashutosh Desai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v7] nfc: hci: fix out-of-bounds read in HCP header parsing
  2026-05-05 · Ashutosh Desai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4] nfc: nxp-nci: i2c: use rising-edge IRQ on ACPI systems
  2026-05-19 · Carl Lee via B4 Relay <devnull+carl.lee.amd.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 9 (6M) [PATCH v5] nfc: nxp-nci: i2c: use rising-edge IRQ on ACPI systems
  2026-05-19 · Carl Lee via B4 Relay <devnull+carl.lee.amd.com@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by, 3 Tested-by
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v2] nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in TLV parsers
  2026-06-22 · Muhammad Bilal <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v2] nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in nci_core_init_rsp_packet()
  2026-06-24 · Samuel Page <hidden> · 1 Tested-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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] nfc: nxp-nci: remove interrupt trigger type
  2026-02-04 · Carl Lee via B4 Relay <devnull+carl.lee.amd.com@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] nfc: pn544: i2c: Fix spelling mistake in comment
  2026-02-19 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/3] nfc: nfcmrvl: convert to gpio descriptors
  2026-03-04 · Jialu Xu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/3] nfc: s3fwrn5: convert to gpio descriptors
  2026-03-04 · Jialu Xu <hidden>
• STALE143d [PATCH 1/2] nfc: pn533: drop redundant device reference
  2026-03-05 · Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
• STALE143d [PATCH 2/2] nfc: port100: drop redundant device reference
  2026-03-05 · Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 47/61] nfc: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE118d [PATCH 1/3] nfc: nfcmrvl: refactor endpoint lookup
  2026-03-30 · Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 3/3] nfc: port100: refactor endpoint lookup
  2026-03-30 · Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 2/3] nfc: pn533: refactor endpoint lookup
  2026-03-30 · Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>