openvswitch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
• M Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• M Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
• F include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
• F net/openvswitch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/2] selftests: openvswitch: add SCTP flow key and NAT tests
  2026-09-06 16:53 · 2 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 0/4] selftests: openvswitch: pylint cleanup of ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-09-05 10:41 · 4 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix use-after-free of the flow table mask array
  2026-09-06 08:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] selftests: openvswitch: SCTP flow key coverage (IPv6 + NAT)
  2026-09-02 12:51 · 2 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix wrong flag value in get_ipv6_ext_hdrs()
  2026-09-03 08:19 · 0 replies in 7d · Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't schedule rebalancing if there are no datapaths
  2026-09-02 20:32 · 0 replies in 7d · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Vega <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-21
• Nan Li <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-21
• Ren Wei <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-21
• Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-22
• Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-14
• Jongmin Jang <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-22
• Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-03
• Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-10

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP NAT test with port translation
  2026-09-06 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test over IPv6
  2026-09-06 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix use-after-free of the flow table mask array
  2026-09-06 · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 4/4] selftests: openvswitch: suppress pylint complexity warnings
  2026-09-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 3/4] selftests: openvswitch: add missing docstrings in ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-09-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 2/4] selftests: openvswitch: fix misc pylint warnings in ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-09-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 1/4] selftests: openvswitch: convert %-formatting to f-strings
  2026-09-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix wrong flag value in get_ipv6_ext_hdrs()
  2026-09-03 · Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't schedule rebalancing if there are no datapaths
  2026-09-02 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test across conntrack NAT
  2026-09-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test over IPv6
  2026-09-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test across conntrack NAT
  2026-08-23 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test over IPv6
  2026-08-23 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net v4 1/3] openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop
  2026-08-22 · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v9 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-08-21 · Yuqi Xu <hidden>
• COLD17d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v8 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-08-19 · Yuqi Xu <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net v3 1/3] openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop
  2026-08-18 · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v7 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-08-17 · Yuqi Xu <hidden>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2 1/3] openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop
  2026-08-16 · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v2] net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
  2026-08-15 · Ruoyu Wang <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion
  2026-08-15 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: core: propagate unreadable flag in skb_zerocopy
  2026-08-14 · Mina Almasry <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
  2026-08-14 · Ruoyu Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net v6 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-08-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• COLD24d [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop
  2026-08-13 · Norbert Szetei <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: enable ops lock for internal ports
  2026-08-12 · Wang Zhan <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: unexport ovs_vport_alloc/free
  2026-08-12 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v6 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-08-12 · Yuqi Xu <hidden>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v3 1/2] net: core: propagate unreadable flag in skb_zerocopy
  2026-08-11 · Mina Almasry <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next v10] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key support and test
  2026-08-11 · Minxi Hou <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.

• STALE171d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
  2026-03-18 · Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 net-next] net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-07 · David Carlier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE123d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] openvswitch: reject oversized NSH MD2 metadata in push_nsh
  2026-04-25 · Ren Wei <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE115d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-28 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE96d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD47d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free
  2026-07-20 · Ren Wei <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.

• STALE184d [PATCH net v3 2/6] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-06 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE159d [PATCH 07/10 net-next] net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH net v4 1/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-09 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH 07/10 net-next v2] net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls
  2026-03-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: openvswitch: make flow_table an rcu pointer
  2026-04-27 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: openvswitch: decouple flow_table from ovs_mutex
  2026-04-27 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports
  2026-04-29 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• STALE129d [PATCH 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>