networking [general] · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• R Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst
• F Documentation/netlink/
• F Documentation/networking/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/
• F Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
• F Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/
• F include/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer-provider.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer.h
• F include/linux/in.h
• F include/linux/in6.h
• F include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
• F include/linux/inet.h
• F include/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/linux/net.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/linux/netlink.h
• F include/linux/netpoll.h
• F include/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/linux/sctp.h
• F include/linux/seq_file_net.h
• F include/linux/skbuff*
• F include/net/
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/hsr_netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/in.h
• F include/uapi/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/nbd-netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net_namespace.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netconf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
• F lib/net_utils.c
• F lib/random32.c
• F net/
• F samples/pktgen/
• F tools/net/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/
• X Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/
• X Documentation/networking/regulatory.rst
• X include/net/bluetooth/
• X include/net/cfg80211.h
• X include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
• X include/net/iw_handler.h
• X include/net/mac80211.h
• X include/net/wext.h
• X net/9p/
• X net/batman-adv/
• X net/bluetooth/
• X net/can/
• X net/ceph/
• X net/mac80211/
• X net/rfkill/
• X net/wireless/
• X tools/testing/selftests/net/can/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net] packet: use a consistent hard_header_len in send paths
  2026-07-28 03:14 · 3 replies in 7d · Qihang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 7.1 0000/2077] 7.1.5-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 19:14 · 168 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 6.18 0000/1611] 6.18.40-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 18:26 · 142 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0000/1276] 6.12.97-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 19:51 · 130 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 0000/1266] 6.6.145-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 20:51 · 102 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tcp: Decrement tcp_md5_needed static branch" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-07-27 12:20 · 2 replies in 7d · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-07-27 12:19 · 2 replies in 7d · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 6.1 0000/1067] 6.1.178-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 21:39 · 90 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: sctp: verify vtag before state changes
  2026-07-28 07:35 · 0 replies in 7d · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net: datagram: fix integer overflow in zerocopy_sg_from_iter
  2026-07-28 06:43 · 0 replies in 7d · Jiangshan Yi <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
  109 attestations (106 Reviewed-by, 3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
  62 attestations (58 Reviewed-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-23
• Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
  46 attestations (35 Acked-by, 10 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Tung Nguyen <hidden>
  43 attestations (42 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-22
• Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
  42 attestations (39 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-27
• Victor Nogueira <hidden>
  41 attestations (9 Reviewed-by, 32 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-24
• Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
  38 attestations (38 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  37 attestations (37 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-27
• Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
  36 attestations (36 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-28
• Yuxiang Yang <hidden>
  36 attestations (36 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-28

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: sctp: verify vtag before state changes
  2026-07-28 · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net: datagram: fix integer overflow in zerocopy_sg_from_iter
  2026-07-28 · Jiangshan Yi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] nexthop: account nexthop allocations to memcg
  2026-07-28 · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v3 2/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
  2026-07-28 · Qihang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3 1/2] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
  2026-07-28 · Qihang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] sctp: validate Adaptation Indication parameter length
  2026-07-27 · Charles Vosburgh <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 2/2] net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during ct
  2026-07-27 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 1/2] net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during recirculation
  2026-07-27 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] inet_diag: make bytecode audit O(n) to prevent CPU DoS
  2026-07-27 · Yizhou Zhao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] tcp: Decrement tcp_md5_needed static branch
  2026-07-27 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] tcp: defer md5sig_info kfree past RCU grace period in tcp_connect
  2026-07-27 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error
  2026-07-27 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] xfrm: Use nested-BH locking for nat_keepalive_sk_ipv[46]
  2026-07-27 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure
  2026-07-27 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH net 1/2] tls: don't over-fill the plaintext sk_msg ring in tls_sw_sendmsg_splice()
  2026-07-27 · Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] vsock/virtio: prevent workers from using deleted virtqueues
  2026-07-27 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 1/2] net: fix skb length accounting after generic XDP frag adjustment
  2026-07-27 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] net: flow_offload: serialize driver callback lists
  2026-07-26 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 1/2] tls: don't over-fill the plaintext sk_msg ring in tls_sw_sendmsg_splice()
  2026-07-26 · chanyoung <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] packet: use consistent header lengths in raw send paths
  2026-07-26 · Qihang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net/x25: fix use-after-free of the socket by its timers
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] sctp: fix transport UAF via the retransmit queue
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net/x25: fix use-after-free in x25_kill_by_neigh()
  2026-07-26 · Baul Lee <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wpan v3] mac802154: fix use-after-free of sdata via queued RX frames
  2026-07-25 · Ibrahim Hashimov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net v2 1/1] net/sched: cls_route: fix fastmap use-after-free and preserve netns teardown ordering
  2026-07-24 · Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2 3/4] net: hsr: unfold GSO super-packets at the forward entry
  2026-07-24 · Xin Xie <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net v2 2/4] net: hsr: shrink seqnr_lock to sequence counter updates
  2026-07-24 · Xin Xie <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net v2 1/4] net: hsr: fix packet drops caused by GRO superpackets
  2026-07-24 · Xin Xie <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.

• STALE189d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.12 100/119] bpf, test_run: Subtract size of xdp_frame from allowed metadata size
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5.15-v6.1 2/2] tls: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in get_netdev_for_sock().
  2026-01-19 · Keerthana K <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 2/8] vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb()
  2026-01-26 · Heitor Alves de Siqueira <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 1/8] vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
  2026-01-26 · Heitor Alves de Siqueira <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 4/8] vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
  2026-01-26 · Heitor Alves de Siqueira <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 6/8] vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
  2026-01-26 · Heitor Alves de Siqueira <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net 1/5] mptcp: avoid dup SUB_CLOSED events after disconnect
  2026-01-27 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net 2/5] selftests: mptcp: check no dup close events after error
  2026-01-27 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net 3/5] mptcp: only reset subflow errors when propagated
  2026-01-27 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net 4/5] selftests: mptcp: check subflow errors in close events
  2026-01-27 · "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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.1.y] SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.15.y] SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.10.y] SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.12.y] svcrdma: bound check rq_pages index in inline path
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6.6.y] svcrdma: bound check rq_pages index in inline path
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.15.y] svcrdma: bound check rq_pages index in inline path
  2025-12-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.3
  2026-01-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE206d [PATCH 6.12.y 4/7] net: ipv6: ioam6: use consistent dst names
  2026-01-02 · Harshit Mogalapalli <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH 6.12.y 1/7] netfilter: nft_ct: add seqadj extension for natted connections
  2026-01-02 · Harshit Mogalapalli <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.15.y] selftests: net: test_vxlan_under_vrf: fix HV connectivity test
  2026-01-05 · Cao Jiaqiang <hidden>