sctp protocol · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
• M Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

Paths

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

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] sctp: validate Adaptation Indication parameter length
  2026-07-27 23:18 · 0 replies in 7d · Charles Vosburgh <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: fix transport UAF via the retransmit queue
  2026-07-26 06:05 · 0 replies in 7d · Baul Lee <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
  2026-07-25 03:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: reject stale cookies with mismatched verification tags
  2026-07-23 22:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Yuxiang Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix addip_serial increment on ASCONF_ACK allocation failure
  2026-07-23 07:19 · 0 replies in 7d · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 net-next] sctp: auth: break when skb_clone fails for auth_chunk
  2026-07-23 06:11 · 1 reply in 7d · luoqing <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
  4 attestations (3 Acked-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Qi Tang <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Ren Wei <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reported-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-10

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] sctp: validate Adaptation Indication parameter length
  2026-07-27 · Charles Vosburgh <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: fix transport UAF via the retransmit queue
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
  2026-07-25 · Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: reject stale cookies with mismatched verification tags
  2026-07-23 · Yuxiang Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix addip_serial increment on ASCONF_ACK allocation failure
  2026-07-23 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v5] sctp: auth: discard auth_chunk when skb_clone fails
  2026-07-23 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3] sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing
  2026-07-21 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v4] sctp: socket: set *err = 0 on receive shutdown
  2026-07-21 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 net] sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL
  2026-07-21 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 net-next] sctp: auth: break when skb_clone fails for auth_chunk
  2026-07-21 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v2] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-07-20 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net v3 2/2] sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL
  2026-07-20 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net v3 1/2] sctp: auth: do not set auth flag when skb_clone fails
  2026-07-20 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net v4] sctp: socket: refactor sctp_skb_recv_datagram to use ERR_PTR
  2026-07-20 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net v3] sctp: socket: remove unused 'err' parameter from sctp_skb_recv_datagram
  2026-07-17 · luoqing <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2] sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing
  2026-07-16 · 朱雀蓝军AIGBot邮箱 <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 1/2] net: sctp: socket: Fix uninitialized error on socket shutdown
  2026-07-16 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 2/2] net: sctp: auth: Fix safety issue when skb_clone fails in auth_chunk handling
  2026-07-16 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing
  2026-07-16 · 朱雀蓝军AIGBot邮箱 <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 2/2] sctp: auth: Fix safety issue when skb_clone fails in auth_chunk handling
  2026-07-16 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 1/2] sctp: socket: Fix uninitialized error on socket shutdown
  2026-07-16 · luoqing <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] sctp: diag: fix uninitialized stack leak via INET_DIAG_LOCALS/PEERS
  2026-07-15 · MingXuan <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net v3 1/2] sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
  2026-07-15 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net v3 2/2] sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown
  2026-07-15 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 2/2] net/sock: Propagate WF_SYNC only when requested
  2026-07-14 · Srikar Dronamraju <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC net-next v3 2/3] net: Const qualify ctl_tables that kmemdup unconditionally
  2026-07-13 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2] sctp: fix auth_chunk_list capacity check in sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid
  2026-07-13 · 寒泉 <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 2/2] sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown
  2026-07-11 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
  2026-07-11 · Ren Wei <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.

• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1.y] sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv
  2026-01-30 · Li hongliang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 net-next] net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-07 · David Carlier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.12 1/2] net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD32d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.15/6.1/6.6 1/2] net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD25d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] net: sctp: fix AUTH HMAC list overflow into auth_chunks
  2026-07-03 · Ren Wei <hidden> · 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.

• STALE187d [PATCH net-next v6 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-01-20 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH net-next v7 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-01-27 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH net-next v7 09/11] net: sctp: convert sctp_v{4,6}_xmit to use a noref dst when possible
  2026-01-27 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE134d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 29/61] net/sctp: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH net-next v8 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-03-12 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH net-next v8 09/11] net: sctp: convert sctp_v{4,6}_xmit to use a noref dst when possible
  2026-03-12 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH v1 net-next 02/15] udp_tunnel: Pass struct sock to setup_udp_tunnel_sock().
  2026-05-02 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net 1/1] sctp: stream: rebind out_curr when updating streams
  2026-05-27 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD34d [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: factor out INIT verification failure handling
  2026-06-20 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>