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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net: convert rawv6, ieee802154, phonet and tls getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-20 16:23 · 2 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v2] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-07-20 14:40 · 0 replies in 7d · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-20 07:00 · 0 replies in 7d · Minhong He <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: convert rawv6, ieee802154, phonet and tls getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-16 13:02 · 2 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net v2] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-16 10:15 · 0 replies in 7d · Minhong He <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Rémi Denis-Courmont <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-20

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-20 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-20 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v2] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-07-20 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-20 · Minhong He <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-16 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-16 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net v2] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-16 · Minhong He <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-13 · Minhong He <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next] net: Convert %pK back to %p
  2026-07-06 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 · Santosh Kalluri <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH net] phonet/pep: disable BH around forwarded sk_receive_skb()
  2026-05-19 · Zijing Yin <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH net v2] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-23 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH] net: phonet: fix BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind()
  2026-04-22 · Deepanshu Kartikey <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-22 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• STALE125d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE127d [PATCH net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-14 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE125d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE139d [PATCH net-next] net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers
  2026-02-27 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE224d [PATCH] memset skb to zero to avoid uninit value error from KMSAN
  2025-12-07 · Syed Tayyab Farooq <hidden>
• STALE257d [PATCH net-next v5 5/8] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE257d [PATCH net-next v5 3/8] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE257d [PATCH net-next v5 2/8] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE261d [net-next PATCH v4 4/7] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE261d [net-next PATCH v4 1/7] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE261d [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE270d [PATCH v3 6/9] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE270d [PATCH v3 3/9] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE270d [PATCH v3 4/9] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE272d [PATCH v2 06/10] net: Convert proto callbacks from sockaddr to sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@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.

• STALE125d 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
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 · Santosh Kalluri <hidden> · 1 Acked-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.

• STALE125d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>