phonet protocol · Supported

Maintainers

• M Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/phonet.rst
• F include/linux/phonet.h
• F include/net/phonet/
• F include/uapi/linux/phonet.h
• F net/phonet/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 00:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Santosh Kalluri <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Rémi Denis-Courmont <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-04

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 · Santosh Kalluri <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net] phonet/pep: disable BH around forwarded sk_receive_skb()
  2026-05-19 · Zijing Yin <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH net v2] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-23 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH] net: phonet: fix BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind()
  2026-04-22 · Deepanshu Kartikey <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-22 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE81d [PATCH net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-14 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE91d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH net-next] net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers
  2026-02-27 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE178d [PATCH] memset skb to zero to avoid uninit value error from KMSAN
  2025-12-07 · Syed Tayyab Farooq <hidden>
• STALE211d [PATCH net-next v5 5/8] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE211d [PATCH net-next v5 3/8] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE211d [PATCH net-next v5 2/8] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE215d [net-next PATCH v4 4/7] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE215d [net-next PATCH v4 1/7] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE215d [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE223d [PATCH v3 6/9] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE223d [PATCH v3 3/9] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE223d [PATCH v3 4/9] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE226d [PATCH v2 06/10] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE226d [PATCH v2 04/10] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE226d [PATCH v2 03/10] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE279d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 net-next 1/5] net: add sk_drops_read(), sk_drops_inc() and sk_drops_reset() helpers
  2025-08-26 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE281d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: add sk_drops_read(), sk_drops_inc() and sk_drops_reset() helpers
  2025-08-25 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE295d [PATCH net-next] phonet: add __rcu annotations
  2025-08-11 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE314d [PATCH 6/6 net-next] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unspec
  2025-07-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE314d [PATCH 4/6 net-next] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-07-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE314d [PATCH 3/6 net-next] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-07-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE321d [PATCH net] phonet/pep: Move call to pn_skb_get_dst_sockaddr() earlier in pep_sock_accept()
  2025-07-15 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE79d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 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.

• STALE79d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>