Re: Path forward for NFC in the kernel

David Heidelberg
2026-04-17T13:32:55Z

On 17/04/2026 09:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 16/04/2026 19:10, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> We are struggling to keep up with the number of security reports and AI
>> generated patches in the kernel. NFC is infamous for being a huge CVE
>> magnet. We need someone to step up as a maintainer, create an NFC tree
>> and handle all the incoming submissions. Send us (or Linus if you
>> prefer) periodic PRs, like WiFi, Bluetooth etc. do. If that does not
>> happen I'm afraid we'll have to move the NFC code out of the tree,
>> put it up on GH or some such, and let it accumulate CVEs there..
>>
>> I'm planning to send a PR to Linus to shed the unmaintained code early
>> next week. We need to have a maintainer established by then.
>
> +Cc David Heidelberg recently trying to use Linux NFC stack,
>
+Cc oe-linux-nfc@lists.linux.dev

For now we had NFC related discussion in our sdm845-next channel, but I brought
Matrix channel [1] for the kernel, neard, user-space discussion, so people can
share and interact in real-time (the chat content is public without needing to
join the room).

David

[1] https://matrix.to/#/#linux-nfc:ixit.cz

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