virtio core · 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 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vdpa
• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-vduse
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/virtio/
• F Documentation/driver-api/virtio/
• F drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
• F drivers/crypto/virtio/
• F drivers/vdpa/
• F drivers/virtio/
• F include/linux/vdpa.h
• F include/linux/virtio*.h
• F include/linux/vringh.h
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_*.h
• F net/vmw_vsock/virtio*
• F tools/virtio/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/4] virtio: validate device-reported values across drivers
  2026-07-15 16:43 · 4 replies in 7d · Hari Mishal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/2] virtio_balloon: fix Use-After-Free bugs during PM freeze
  2026-07-17 00:24 · 1 reply in 7d · Link Lin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa: Remove redundant dev_err()
  2026-07-16 14:14 · 0 replies in 7d · Pan Chuang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] virtio_ring: fix infinite loop in virtnet_poll_cleantx when device is broken
  2026-07-16 11:59 · 0 replies in 7d · Jinqian Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] vdpa/mlx5: roll back MR update after VQ setup failure
  2026-07-16 05:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2] virtio_net: fix infinite loop in virtnet_poll_cleantx when device is broken
  2026-07-16 03:52 · 0 replies in 7d · Jinqian Yang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix MR state corruption on setup_vq_resources failure
  2026-07-16 03:02 · 0 replies in 7d · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix MR state corruption on setup_vq_resources failure
  2026-07-16 03:00 · 0 replies in 7d · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH] virtio_mem: fix typo in comment
  2026-07-14 03:24 · 0 replies in 7d · weimin xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/solidrun: fix typos in snet_ctrl comments
  2026-07-14 02:45 · 0 replies in 7d · weimin xiong <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  5 attestations (3 Acked-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-17
• Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• Pankaj Gupta <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-20

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio_balloon: avoid shrinker execution during PM suspend
  2026-07-17 · Link Lin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa: Remove redundant dev_err()
  2026-07-16 · Pan Chuang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] virtio_ring: fix infinite loop in virtnet_poll_cleantx when device is broken
  2026-07-16 · Jinqian Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] vdpa/mlx5: roll back MR update after VQ setup failure
  2026-07-16 · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2] virtio_net: fix infinite loop in virtnet_poll_cleantx when device is broken
  2026-07-16 · Jinqian Yang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix MR state corruption on setup_vq_resources failure
  2026-07-16 · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix MR state corruption on setup_vq_resources failure
  2026-07-16 · Weimin Xiong <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/4] virtio_input: validate device-reported multitouch slot count
  2026-07-15 · Hari Mishal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size
  2026-07-15 · Hari Mishal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size
  2026-07-15 · Hari Mishal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/4] virtio_input: validate device-reported multitouch slot count
  2026-07-15 · Hari Mishal <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH] virtio_mem: fix typo in comment
  2026-07-14 · weimin xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/solidrun: fix typos in snet_ctrl comments
  2026-07-14 · weimin xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] virtio: fix article before virtio in dma-buf comment
  2026-07-14 · weimin xiong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] virtio: rtc: time out alarm requests
  2026-07-14 · GuoHan Zhao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC] virtio_balloon: fix Use-After-Free in page reporting during PM freeze
  2026-07-09 · Link Lin <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v4] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 2/2] vduse: Add suspend
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 1/2] vduse: do not take rwsem at reset work flush
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 4/4] vduse: add F_QUEUE_READY feature
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v4 3/4] vduse: add VDUSE_SET_FEATURES ioctl
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v4 2/4] vduse: add VDUSE_GET_FEATURES ioctl
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v4 1/4] vduse: store control device pointer
  2026-07-07 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
  2026-07-06 · Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-06 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
  2026-07-06 · Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [RFC/PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
  2026-07-06 · Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix wrong MLX5_ADDR_OF struct type in alloc_inout()
  2026-07-06 · lirongqing <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] virtio_balloon: prime stats vq after virtio_device_ready()
  2026-07-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

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.

• STALE191d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH net-next v15 01/12] virtio_pci: Remove supported_cap size build assert
  2026-01-07 · Daniel Jurgens <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 2/3] vdpa/mlx5: reuse common function for MAC address updates
  2026-01-26 · Cindy Lu <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] vduse: Fix msg list race in vduse_dev_read_iter
  2026-01-30 · Zhang Tianci <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE164d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] virtio_ring: Add READ_ONCE annotations for device-writable fields
  2026-01-31 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE163d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] vduse: Fix race in vduse_dev_msg_sync and vduse_dev_read_iter
  2026-02-02 · Zhang Tianci <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH net-next v20 02/12] virtio: Add config_op for admin commands
  2026-02-05 · Daniel Jurgens <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 2/2] vduse: Fix race in vduse_dev_msg_sync and vduse_dev_read_iter
  2026-02-26 · Zhang Tianci <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: Patch "vhost: move vdpa group bound check to vhost_vdpa" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE204d [PATCH V10 12/19] virtio_ring: switch to use unsigned int for virtqueue_poll_packed()
  2025-12-24 · Jason Wang <hidden>
• STALE200d [PATCH V11 12/19] virtio_ring: switch to use unsigned int for virtqueue_poll_packed()
  2025-12-25 · Jason Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/3] vdpa/mlx5: update mlx_features with driver state check
  2025-12-29 · Cindy Lu <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH V11 12/19] virtio_ring: switch to use unsigned int for virtqueue_poll_packed()
  2025-12-30 · Jason Wang <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH RFC 06/13] virtio: add virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean API
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE193d [PATCH RFC 09/13] virtio_input: fix DMA alignment for evts
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE193d [PATCH RFC 12/13] virtio_input: use virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean for events
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC 09/13] virtio_input: fix DMA cacheline alignment for evts
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v2 06/15] virtio: add virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean API
  2026-01-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v2 09/15] virtio_input: fix DMA alignment for evts
  2026-01-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>