tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 00/16] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet handling
  2026-07-10 19:24 · 8 replies in 7d · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v9 0/9] BIG TCP for UDP tunnels
  2026-07-10 13:43 · 1 reply in 7d · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next] net/tcp: Add explicit tracepoint for tcp_syn_ack_timeout()
  2026-07-07 01:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v8 0/9] BIG TCP for UDP tunnels
  2026-07-06 18:20 · 1 reply in 7d · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-10

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 14/16] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 16/16] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 11/16] afs: Fix UAF in afs_make_call()
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 10/16] afs: Make afs_put_call() take trace argument
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 09/16] afs: Simplify call refcounting
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 08/16] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 06/16] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2 03/16] afs: Fix UAF when sending a message
  2026-07-10 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday 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>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next] net/tcp: Add explicit tracepoint for tcp_syn_ack_timeout()
  2026-07-07 · Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
• WARM3d 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>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 4/4] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-07-02 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 3/4] afs: Fix UAF when sending a message
  2026-07-02 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COOLING4d 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>
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v6 03/11] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-06-02 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5 03/11] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-05-26 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v4 1/3] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-15 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH net v3 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD58d [PATCH net v2 2/4] crypto/krb5, rxrpc: Fix lack of pre-decrypt/pre-verify length checks
  2026-05-13 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 04/12] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-05-12 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] net: constify sk_skb_reason_drop() sock parameter
  2026-05-11 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD60d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: constify sk_skb_reason_drop() sock parameter
  2026-05-07 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE78d [PATCH net 2/3] rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets
  2026-04-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.15.y] rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
  2026-04-22 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.1.y] rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
  2026-04-22 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.10.y] rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
  2026-04-22 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH net v2 2/6] rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling
  2026-04-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE78d [PATCH net v2 3/6] rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure
  2026-04-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE80d [PATCH net 4/4] rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling
  2026-04-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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.

• STALE155d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 04/15] trace: mptcp: add mptcp_rcvbuf_grow tracepoint
  2026-02-03 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/5] net: sched: introduce qdisc-specific drop reason tracing
  2026-02-16 · Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 1/5] net: sched: introduce qdisc-specific drop reason tracing
  2026-02-26 · Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE116d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] mptcp: better mptcp-level RTT estimator
  2026-04-07 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE202d [PATCH bpf-next v4 2/9] bpf: use last 8-bits for the nr_args in trampoline
  2025-12-17 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] trace: fix UBSAN warning in __remove_instance
  2025-12-19 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• STALE188d [PATCH bpf-next v5 02/10] bpf: use last 8-bits for the nr_args in trampoline
  2025-12-24 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE188d [PATCH bpf-next v5 04/10] bpf: add the kfunc bpf_fsession_cookie
  2025-12-24 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH bpf-next v6 02/10] bpf: use last 8-bits for the nr_args in trampoline
  2026-01-04 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH bpf-next v6 04/10] bpf: add the kfunc bpf_fsession_cookie
  2026-01-04 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE184d [PATCH bpf-next v7 03/11] bpf: change prototype of bpf_session_{cookie,is_return}
  2026-01-07 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE184d [PATCH bpf-next v7 05/11] bpf: support fsession for bpf_session_cookie
  2026-01-07 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH bpf-next v8 02/11] bpf: use last 8-bits for the nr_args in trampoline
  2026-01-08 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH bpf-next v8 03/11] bpf: change prototype of bpf_session_{cookie,is_return}
  2026-01-08 · Menglong Dong <hidden>