bonding driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
• F drivers/net/bonding/
• F include/net/bond*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING6d [PATCH 6.6.y 00/11] bonding bugfixes for 6.6.y
  2026-07-08 09:51 · 8 replies in 7d · Wentao Guan <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
  6 attestations (5 Acked-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Jiayuan Chen <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Hangbin Liu <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Jiri Pirko <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Boris Pismenny <borisp@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 10/11] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 09/11] bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH 6.6.y 07/11] bonding: use common function to compute the features
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 6.6.y 08/11] bonding: fix xfrm offload feature setup on active-backup mode
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6.y 05/11] bonding: Correctly support GSO ESP offload
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6.y 04/11] bonding: add ESP offload features when slaves support
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.6.y 02/11] net, team, bonding: Add netdev_base_features helper
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.6.y 03/11] bonding: Fix initial {vlan,mpls}_feature set in bond_compute_features
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING10d Re: Linux 6.12.95
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD25d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.143
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.94
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD25d Re: Linux 6.1.176
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.210
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.259
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10 154/342] bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.15 027/411] bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 6.1 188/522] bpf/bonding: reject vlan+srcmac xmit_hash_policy change when XDP is loaded
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 030/522] bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 036/452] bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.12 7/7] bonding: fix NULL pointer dereference in actor_port_prio setting
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 6/7] net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 5/7] bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 4/7] bonding: print churn state via netlink
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 3/7] bonding: add support for per-port LACP actor priority
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 2/7] net: bonding: add broadcast_neighbor option for 802.3ad
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 6.12 1/7] Revert "net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()"
  2026-06-16 · Kevin Berry <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 7.0 070/378] bonding: annotate data-races arcound churn variables
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10] bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices
  2026-06-09 · Alexey Panov <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.

• STALE85d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode
  2026-04-15 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE208d Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE147d [PATCH 6.6 247/737] selftests: bonding: add ipvlan over bond testing
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE184d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.122
  2026-01-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.68
  2026-01-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE165d Re: Linux 6.18.8
  2026-01-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.249
  2026-02-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.199
  2026-02-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>