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 00/13 RFC net-next] Allow compiling an IPv6-only kernel network stack
  2026-07-12 01:40 · 1 reply in 7d · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 2/2] sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown
  2026-07-11 04:23 · 0 replies in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
  2026-07-11 04:22 · 0 replies in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix addr_wq_timer race in sctp_free_addr_wq()
  2026-07-10 18:23 · 0 replies in 7d · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
  2026-07-10 18:12 · 0 replies in 7d · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v2] sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq()
  2026-07-10 01:07 · 0 replies in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] sctp: replace cb->args[4] with a local variable in sctp_diag_dump()
  2026-07-09 21:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq()
  2026-07-08 21:20 · 1 reply in 7d · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next] net: Convert %pK back to %p
  2026-07-06 07:38 · 0 replies in 7d · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• 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
• Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Suggested-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 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>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
  2026-07-11 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix addr_wq_timer race in sctp_free_addr_wq()
  2026-07-10 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
  2026-07-10 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v2] sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq()
  2026-07-10 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] sctp: replace cb->args[4] with a local variable in sctp_diag_dump()
  2026-07-09 · 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>
• WARM3d [PATCH net] sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq()
  2026-07-07 · Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next] net: Convert %pK back to %p
  2026-07-06 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net] sctp: validate the body of a STALE_COOKIE error before reading it
  2026-07-05 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness
  2026-07-04 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• 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>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net 1/1] net: sctp: fix AUTH HMAC list overflow into auth_chunks
  2026-07-03 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH net] sctp: fix addr_wq_timer race in sctp_free_addr_wq()
  2026-06-29 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH net 1/1] sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown
  2026-06-28 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.15/6.1/6.6 2/2] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• COLD15d 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>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2] sctp: fix SCTP_RESET_STREAMS stream list length limit
  2026-06-25 · Yousef Alhouseen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 2/2] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.12 1/2] net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.18] sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  2026-06-25 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net v3] sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking
  2026-06-24 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net] sctp: fix SCTP_RESET_STREAMS stream list length limit
  2026-06-24 · Yousef Alhouseen <hidden>
• COLD17d Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking
  2026-06-23 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH v2 net-next] sctp: use sctp_auth_shkey_release() in error path for consistency
  2026-06-22 · Wentao Liang <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH net] sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling
  2026-06-20 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH net v2 2/2] sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking
  2026-06-20 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH net v2 1/2] sctp: factor out INIT verification failure handling
  2026-06-20 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD23d [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: add INIT verification after cookie unpacking
  2026-06-16 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

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.

• STALE173d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
  2026-01-13 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1.y] sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv
  2026-01-30 · Li hongliang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE92d 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
• COLD16d 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
• COLD15d 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

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.

• STALE171d [PATCH net-next v6 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-01-20 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH net-next v7 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-01-27 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE149d [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>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 03/12] net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE86d [PATCH 29/61] net/sctp: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH net-next v8 03/11] net: tunnel: convert udp_tunnel{6,}_xmit_skb to noref
  2026-03-12 · Marek Mietus <hidden>
• STALE95d [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>
• STALE67d [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>