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 net 0/7] selftests: net: add missing kconfig and settings
  2026-07-10 18:05 · 1 reply in 7d · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/3] vxlan: RCU protect vxlan_config and enable RTNL-less fill_info
  2026-07-08 16:04 · 2 replies in 7d · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-09 12:05 · 0 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow
  2026-07-07 22:16 · 0 replies in 7d · Kyle Zeng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-07 03:47 · 0 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs
  2026-07-06 09:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-09

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net 2/7] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 2/3] vxlan: convert configuration to RCU protection
  2026-07-08 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 1/3] vxlan: pass vxlan_config pointer to helper functions
  2026-07-08 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow
  2026-07-07 · Kyle Zeng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-07 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs
  2026-07-06 · Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v4] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-06-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: conntrack: annotate ct limit hlist traversal
  2026-06-24 · Runyu Xiao <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-15 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next 03/11] netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
  2026-06-14 · Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SET action test
  2026-06-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-06-11 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next v4 4/4] net: openvswitch: avoid double-rcu wait period
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] net: openvswitch: decouple flow_table from ovs_mutex
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next v4 2/4] net: openvswitch: add per-flow_table lockdep checks
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net-next v4 1/4] net: openvswitch: make flow_table an rcu pointer
  2026-06-11 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add flow modify test
  2026-06-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add flow modify test
  2026-06-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH net v4] selftests/net/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-04 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
  2026-06-04 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-03 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] selftests/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH] selftests/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-30 · 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.

• STALE113d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
  2026-03-18 · Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE92d 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
• STALE65d 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
• COLD57d 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
• COLD38d 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

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.

• STALE172d Re: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix data race in ovs_vport_get_upcall_stats
  2026-01-19 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE170d [PATCH 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE164d [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-27 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH net v3 2/6] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-06 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 07/10 net-next] net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH net v4 1/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-09 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE116d [PATCH 07/10 net-next v2] net: convert remaining ipv6_stub users to direct function calls
  2026-03-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: openvswitch: make flow_table an rcu pointer
  2026-04-27 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: openvswitch: decouple flow_table from ovs_mutex
  2026-04-27 · Adrian Moreno <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports
  2026-04-29 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>