virtio net driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• M Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>
• R Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• R Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>

Paths

• F drivers/net/virtio_net.c
• F include/linux/virtio_net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/virtio_net/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH] virtio_net: validate device stats reply records before use
  2026-07-11 15:07 · 0 replies in 7d · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COOLING5d [LTS Backport Request] Fix RSS indirection table OOB write (6.1.y, 6.6.y)
  2026-07-10 11:25 · 2 replies in 7d · Annie Kim <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Joe Damato <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-10

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH] virtio_net: validate device stats reply records before use
  2026-07-11 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 6.1.y] virtio_net: Support dynamic rss indirection table size
  2026-07-10 · Hyokyung Kim <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 6.6.y] virtio_net: Support dynamic rss indirection table size
  2026-07-10 · Hyokyung Kim <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 6.1.y] virtio_net: clamp rss_indir_table_size to VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_TABLE_LEN
  2026-07-03 · Hyokyung Kim <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 6.6.y] virtio_net: clamp rss_indir_table_size to VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_TABLE_LEN
  2026-07-03 · Hyokyung Kim <hidden>
• COLD53d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD48d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.12 495/666] virtio_net: sync rss_trailer.max_tx_vq on queue_pairs change via VQ_PAIRS_SET
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 14 (12M) [PATCH 6.12 494/666] virtio_net: Use new RSS config structs
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 14 (12M) [PATCH 6.12 493/666] virtio_net: Fix endian with virtio_net_ctrl_rss
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD50d REVIEWED: 14 (12M) [PATCH 6.12 492/666] virtio_net: Split struct virtio_net_rss_config
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.18 711/957] virtio_net: sync rss_trailer.max_tx_vq on queue_pairs change via VQ_PAIRS_SET
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 7.0 0856/1146] virtio_net: sync rss_trailer.max_tx_vq on queue_pairs change via VQ_PAIRS_SET
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE88d Re: Linux 6.6.135
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.203
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.253
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.12
  2026-04-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE84d Re: Linux 6.18.22
  2026-04-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.168
  2026-04-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.1.y] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN
  2026-04-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.6.y] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN
  2026-04-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.12.y] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN
  2026-04-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-04-08 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-04-08 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-04-08 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE104d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.21
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.131
  2026-04-02 · 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: [PATCH net v2] virtio-net: enable all napis before scheduling refill work
  2025-12-22 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.6
  2026-01-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.7
  2026-01-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] virtio_net: Fix UAF on dst_ops when IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is cleared and napi_tx is false
  2026-03-12 · xietangxin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] virtio_net: Fix UAF on dst_ops when IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is cleared and napi_tx is false
  2026-03-12 · xietangxin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.131
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.80
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.21
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE104d Re: Linux 6.19.11
  2026-04-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.168
  2026-04-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>