packet sockets · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>

Paths

• F include/uapi/linux/if_packet.h
• F net/packet/af_packet.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] af_packet: fix integer overflow in prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo()
  2026-09-23 05:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Dairui Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v6 0/2] net: prevent partial checksums from modifying network headers
  2026-09-22 03:03 · 1 reply in 7d · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] af_packet: fix integer overflow in prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo()
  2026-09-21 19:26 · 0 replies in 7d · Dairui Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v4 0/2] net: prevent partial checksums from modifying IPv4 headers
  2026-09-21 02:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] net/packet: zero-pad spkt_device and preserve sa.origlen across MSG_PEEK
  2026-09-19 21:52 · 0 replies in 7d · Hui Peng <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v2 0/2] packet: fix PACKET_TX_RING data corruption on skb_orphan
  2026-09-19 00:47 · 1 reply in 7d · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Katherine Leaver <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-19
• Bjoern Doebel <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-19
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-01
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-30

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] af_packet: fix integer overflow in prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo()
  2026-09-23 · Dairui Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v6 1/2] net: validate virtio checksum start after network header
  2026-09-22 · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] af_packet: fix integer overflow in prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo()
  2026-09-21 · Dairui Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v5 1/2] net: validate virtio checksum start after network header
  2026-09-21 · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] net/packet: zero-pad spkt_device and preserve sa.origlen across MSG_PEEK
  2026-09-19 · Hui Peng <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v2 2/2] packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets
  2026-09-19 · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net 2/2] packet: use ubuf_info completion for TX_RING packets
  2026-09-14 · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH net] net/packet: preserve TX_RING progress on a later frame error
  2026-09-13 · Mark Amirkan <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net] net/packet: clear RX owner on VNET header error
  2026-09-13 · Mark Amirkan via B4 Relay <devnull+markdamirkan.gmail.com@kernel.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next real v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD22d [PATCH net-next v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD20d [PATCH net v3] net/packet: fix network header offset for non-VLAN raw packets on VLAN subinterfaces
  2026-09-01 · Junnan Zhang <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH net v2] net/packet: fix network header offset for non-VLAN raw packets
  2026-08-31 · Junnan Zhang <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v1 net] af_packet: Don't cast tpacket_hdr.tp_len to int in tpacket_parse_header().
  2026-08-30 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD29d [PATCH] net/packet: fix network header offset for non-VLAN raw packets on VLAN subinterfaces
  2026-08-21 · Junnan Zhang <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH net v2] net/packet: defer vmalloc TX_RING free until skbs finish
  2026-08-16 · Kyle Zeng <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH net-next v3] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-08-12 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD43d [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/packet: Use copy_safe_from_sockptr to dedupe code
  2026-08-11 · Joe Damato <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/packet: Reduce VLAN tag code duplication
  2026-08-11 · Joe Damato <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH net] af_packet: Don't send zero-byte data in tpacket_snd().
  2026-08-10 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 net 1/2] net: packet: fix wrong transport_header when sending VLAN-tagged frame
  2026-08-07 · <hidden>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 3/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-08-05 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 2/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
  2026-08-05 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH net 1/2] net: packet: fix skb->protocol not updated after VLAN network header adjustment
  2026-08-05 · <hidden>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 3/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-08-04 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 2/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
  2026-08-04 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH net v5 2/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-07-30 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v5 1/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
  2026-07-30 · Qihang <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v3 1/1] packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration
  2026-07-29 · Zihan Xi <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH net v4 2/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-07-29 · Qihang <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.

• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3] net/packet: avoid fanout hook re-registration after unregister
  2026-07-07 · David Lee <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration
  2026-07-20 · Ren Wei <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 3/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-08-04 · Qihang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 3/3] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-08-05 · Qihang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next real v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> · 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.

• STALE192d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] af_packet: convert to getsockopt_iter
  2026-04-01 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE111d [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] af_packet: convert to getsockopt_iter
  2026-04-08 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE146d [PATCH net v1 2/3] af_packet: use skb_get_hwtstamp() for hardware timestamps
  2026-04-29 · Kohei Enju <hidden>