vrf · Maintained

Maintainers

• M David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/vrf.rst
• F drivers/net/vrf.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-02

Recent patches

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

• COOLING11d [PATCH net v2] net/ipv6: don't route packets with unknown source address
  2026-09-03 · Íñigo Huguet <hidden>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-09-02 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-09-01 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net] net/ipv6: don't route packets with unknown source address
  2026-09-01 · Íñigo Huguet <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC v3 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH RFC v2 08/13] sysctl, net: update register_net_sysctl_sz(ARRAY_SIZE(table_tmpl)) with template arguments
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD32d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v3 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-11 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 net-next 08/13] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-07 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v1 net-next 08/11] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-06 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH net] net: vrf: check register_netdevice_notifier() error in vrf_init_module()
  2026-08-03 · Minhong He <hidden>
• STALE106d [PATCH net v2] net: protect egress device access in the output path with rcu_read_lock
  2026-05-31 · Hyunwoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE144d [PATCH net] vrf: Fix a potential NPD when removing a port from a VRF
  2026-04-23 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE174d [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] vrf: Remove unnecessary RCU protection around dst entries
  2026-03-26 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] vrf: Use dst_dev_put() instead of using loopback device
  2026-03-26 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] vrf: Remove unnecessary NULL check
  2026-03-26 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 3/3] vrf: Remove unnecessary synchronize_rcu() invocations
  2026-03-24 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 2/3] vrf: Use dst_dev_put() instead of using loopback device
  2026-03-24 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 1/3] vrf: Remove unnecessary NULL check
  2026-03-24 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH 05/10 net-next v3] drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls
  2026-03-17 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH 05/10 net-next v2] drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls
  2026-03-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH][net-next] net: vrf: switch to synchronize_net() when releasing routes
  2026-03-10 · lirongqing <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 05/10 net-next] drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE387d [PATCH v2 net-next] ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.
  2025-08-25 · Guillaume Nault <hidden>
• STALE389d [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Convert ->flowi4_tos to dscp_t.
  2025-08-20 · Guillaume Nault <hidden>
• STALE403d [PATCH net-next v2] net: vrf: don't down the interface when add slave
  2025-08-07 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE414d [PATCH net-next] net: vrf: don't down netif when add slave
  2025-07-31 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• STALE419d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v3] vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  2025-07-25 · Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
• STALE420d [PATCH net v2] vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  2025-07-23 · Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
• STALE422d [PATCH net 1/2] vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  2025-07-22 · Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>

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.

• STALE170d [PATCH 05/10 net-next] drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH v1 net-next 08/11] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-06 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 net-next 08/13] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-07 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>