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)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] sctp: reject forged cookie peer_addr with unknown address family
  2026-09-13 11:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Xingyuan Mo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] sctp: keep the association alive across the sendmsg connect wait
  2026-09-11 09:00 · 0 replies in 7d · Jun Yang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 00/13 net-next] Allow compiling an IPv6-only kernel network stack
  2026-09-10 14:50 · 1 reply in 7d · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net] sctp: check asoc->base.dead before the RCV_SHUTDOWN break in sctp_wait_for_connect()
  2026-09-09 02:46 · 0 replies in 7d · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 0/6] net: fix typos and repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 04:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Hemanth Selam <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
  5 attestations (1 Acked-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-24
• TencentOS Corvus AI <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Xiang Mei <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-23
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-24
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-01
• Zero Day Initiative <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-26

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] sctp: reject forged cookie peer_addr with unknown address family
  2026-09-13 · Xingyuan Mo <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] sctp: keep the association alive across the sendmsg connect wait
  2026-09-11 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net] sctp: check asoc->base.dead before the RCV_SHUTDOWN break in sctp_wait_for_connect()
  2026-09-09 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 1/6] net: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING9d Re: [syzbot] [sctp?] WARNING: refcount bug in sctp_transport_put (6)
  2026-09-03 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 net] sctp: avoid livelock while updating retransmit path
  2026-09-02 · Yiqi Sun <hidden>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next real v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COOLING11d [PATCH net-next v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• WARM2d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] sctp: Unwind address notifier registration on failure
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v3] sctp: fix soft lockup from unpadded ASCONF-ACK parameter iteration
  2026-08-28 · Henry Martin <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v2] sctp: validate chunk length in the inqueue parser
  2026-08-27 · Charles Vosburgh <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] sctp: avoid livelock while updating retransmit path
  2026-08-27 · Yiqi Sun <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH net] sctp: validate chunk length in the inqueue parser
  2026-08-27 · Charles Vosburgh via B4 Relay <devnull+theminershive.gmail.com@kernel.org>
• COLD15d [PATCH net] sctp: fix a TOCTOU race in SCTP_CMD_TIMER_START
  2026-08-26 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH net v2] sctp: fix soft lockup from unpadded ASCONF-ACK parameter iteration
  2026-08-25 · Henry Martin <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v4 2/2] sctp: fix stream->outcnt underflow on duplicate RECONF responses
  2026-08-24 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v4 1/2] sctp: distinguish sequence zero from wildcard in reconf lookup
  2026-08-24 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v3] sctp: fix NULL deref on untransmitted RECONF completion
  2026-08-23 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH net] sctp: fix soft lockup from unpadded ASCONF-ACK parameter iteration
  2026-08-23 · Henry Martin <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH net] sctp: fix slab OOB read from oversized AUTH parameters in COOKIE-ECHO
  2026-08-23 · Henry Martin <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH net v2] sctp: fix NULL deref on untransmitted RECONF completion
  2026-08-22 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v3 2/2] sctp: fix stream->outcnt underflow on duplicate RECONF responses
  2026-08-21 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v3 1/2] sctp: distinguish sequence zero from wildcard in reconf lookup
  2026-08-21 · Jun Yang <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net] sctp: fix NULL deref on untransmitted RECONF completion
  2026-08-20 · <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC v3 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH RFC v2 07/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl{_sz}() callers with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net v2] sctp: drop a chunk if its transport was removed
  2026-08-19 · Hyunwoo Kim <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net] sctp: fix possible out-of-bounds read in SCTP_PARAM_SUPPORTED_ADDRESS_TYPES
  2026-08-18 · luoqing <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net] sctp: drop a backlogged chunk if its transport was removed
  2026-08-14 · Hyunwoo Kim <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.

• STALE156d 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
• STALE80d 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
• STALE79d 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
• STALE72d 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.

• STALE181d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE150d [PATCH 29/61] net/sctp: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE159d [PATCH net-next v8 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-03-12 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE159d [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>
• STALE131d [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>
• STALE81d [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: factor out INIT verification failure handling
  2026-06-20 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE81d Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking
  2026-06-23 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net: sctp: fix AUTH HMAC list overflow into auth_chunks
  2026-07-03 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net] sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq()
  2026-07-08 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>