ethernet bridge · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
• M Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/if_bridge.h
• F include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
• F include/linux/netfilter_bridge/
• F net/bridge/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Yiming Qian <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Nikolay Aleksandrov <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-07
• Ji'an Zhou <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 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.

• COLD17d 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>
• COLD17d 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>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 5.10 136/342] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 013/342] netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 5.15 154/411] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15 014/411] netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH 6.1 202/522] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1 015/522] netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 6.6 220/452] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6 014/452] netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 6.12 097/261] netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 6.12 023/261] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH 6.18 148/325] netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH 6.18 124/325] netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH 6.18 026/325] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 7.0 141/378] netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 7.0 024/378] netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
  2026-06-10 · Davide Ornaghi <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: nft_meta_bridge: fix stale stack leak via IIFHWADDR register
  2026-06-09 · Davide Ornaghi <hidden>
• COLD27d Re: Linux 7.0.12
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.35
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.93
  2026-06-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18 063/315] bridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in sysfs path
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18 062/315] bridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.12 033/307] netfilter: ebtables: fix OOB read in compat_mtw_from_user
  2026-06-07 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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 6.12.64
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.4
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE139d [PATCH 6.6 345/737] netfilter: nf_tables: pass context structure to nft_parse_register_load
  2026-01-09 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE176d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.65
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE167d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.15] netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY
  2026-01-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.161
  2026-01-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.121
  2026-01-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.66
  2026-01-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>