psp security protocol

Maintainers

• M Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/netlink/specs/psp.yaml
• F Documentation/networking/psp.rst
• F include/net/psp/
• F include/net/psp.h
• F include/uapi/linux/psp.h
• F net/psp/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net: psp: require an established connection for association setup
  2026-09-30 23:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: psp: require an established connection for association setup
  2026-09-30 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: psp: require an established connection for association setup
  2026-09-26 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD20d [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: psp: avoid conflicts with skb->decrypted and sk_validate_xmit_skb()
  2026-09-15 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD21d [PATCH net-next 4/6] psp: notify about a disassociation once it has happened
  2026-09-12 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD21d [PATCH net-next 2/6] psp: don't report the main netdevice's ifindex to associated namespaces
  2026-09-12 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD21d [PATCH net 1/2] net: psp: avoid conflicts with skb->decrypted and sk_validate_xmit_skb()
  2026-09-10 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH net-next 4/4] netdevsim: psp: drop tx key ops
  2026-09-04 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH net-next 3/4] psp: allow drivers to omit tx key add/del ops
  2026-09-04 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH net-next 2/4] psp: move code from psp_sock_assoc_set_tx() into helper functions
  2026-09-04 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH net-next 1/4] psp: refactor psp_dev_tx_key_del()
  2026-09-04 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] psp: validate IPv4 header fields in psp_dev_rcv()
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [RFC net-next 1/6] psp: steer Rx queues with the virtualization cookie
  2026-08-22 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH net-next] net: psp: use psp_dev_is_registered() in psp_assoc_free()
  2026-08-14 · Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH net] psp: use unrcu_pointer() for the cmpxchg() on netdev psp_dev
  2026-08-13 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE69d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH net v4] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-27 · Kiran Kella <hidden>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 7 (4M) [PATCH net v3] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-15 · Kiran Kella <hidden>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v9 3/9] udp: Support BIG TCP GSO packets where they can occur
  2026-07-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v9 1/9] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-07-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH net v2] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-07 · Kiran Kella <hidden>
• STALE91d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v8 3/9] udp: Support BIG TCP GSO packets where they can occur
  2026-07-06 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE91d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v8 1/9] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-07-06 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH net] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-03 · Kiran Kella <hidden>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v7 05/11] udp: Support BIG TCP GSO packets where they can occur
  2026-06-11 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v7 03/11] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-06-11 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v16 net-next 03/10] psp: add a new netdev event for dev unregister
  2026-06-08 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v16 net-next 01/10] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-06-08 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v16 net-next 02/10] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-06-08 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE123d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v15 net-next 03/10] psp: add a new netdev event for dev unregister
  2026-06-03 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE123d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v15 net-next 02/10] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-06-03 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE123d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v15 net-next 01/10] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-06-03 · Wei Wang <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.

• STALE161d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2] net: psp: check for device unregister when creating assoc
  2026-04-27 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE155d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v3] psp: strip variable-length PSP header in psp_dev_rcv()
  2026-05-02 · David Carlier <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH net] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-03 · Kiran Kella <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH net v2] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-07 · Kiran Kella <hidden> · 5 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 7 (4M) [PATCH net v3] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-15 · Kiran Kella <hidden> · 6 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE69d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH net v4] psp: fix NULL genl_sock deref race with concurrent netns teardown
  2026-07-27 · Kiran Kella <hidden> · 4 Reviewed-by
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] psp: validate IPv4 header fields in psp_dev_rcv()
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 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.

• STALE208d [PATCH v4 net-next 1/5] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-03-11 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v4 net-next 2/5] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-03-11 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v5 net-next 1/5] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-03-13 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v5 net-next 2/5] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-03-13 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE202d [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-03-17 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE202d [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-03-17 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE202d [PATCH v6 net-next 3/5] psp: add a new netdev event for dev unregister
  2026-03-17 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH 02/11 net-next v5] net: remove EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() macros
  2026-03-25 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v8 net-next 1/5] psp: add admin/non-admin version of psp_device_get_locked
  2026-03-29 · Wei Wang <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v8 net-next 2/5] psp: add new netlink cmd for dev-assoc and dev-disassoc
  2026-03-29 · Wei Wang <hidden>