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 [PATCH] phonet: pep: fix out-of-bounds reads in pep_ctrlreq_error() and pep_sock_accept()
  2026-09-19 21:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Hui Peng <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-01

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] phonet: pep: fix out-of-bounds reads in pep_ctrlreq_error() and pep_sock_accept()
  2026-09-19 · Hui Peng <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net-next] docs: phonet: Fix the struct sockaddr_pn name in the example
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next real v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD18d [PATCH net-next v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• WARM3d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD38d [PATCH net-next v3] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-08-12 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH net-next v4 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-29 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH net-next v4 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-29 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH net v4] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-21 · Minhong He <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH net] phonet: pep: fix use-after-free in pep_get_sb()
  2026-07-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-20 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD59d 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>
• COLD53d [PATCH net-next v2] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-07-20 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE63d [PATCH net v3] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-20 · Minhong He <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH net-next 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-16 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE66d [PATCH net-next 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-16 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH net v2] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-16 · Minhong He <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH] phonet: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in phonet_device_init()
  2026-07-13 · Minhong He <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH net-next] net: Convert %pK back to %p
  2026-07-06 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 · Santosh Kalluri <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH net] phonet/pep: disable BH around forwarded sk_receive_skb()
  2026-05-19 · Zijing Yin <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH net v2] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-23 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH] net: phonet: fix BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind()
  2026-04-22 · Deepanshu Kartikey <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH] net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
  2026-04-22 · Morduan Zang <hidden>
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-15 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE190d [PATCH net] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-03-14 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE188d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE201d [PATCH v2 004/110] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@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.

• STALE188d 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
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-04 · Santosh Kalluri <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• COLD59d 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> · 1 Acked-by
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-20 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Acked-by
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] phonet: pep: do not write beyond optlen in getsockopt
  2026-07-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] phonet: pep: convert getsockopt to sockopt_t
  2026-07-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD18d 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.

• STALE188d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>