generic string library · Supported

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• R Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>

Paths

• F include/linux/string.h
• F include/linux/string_choices.h
• F include/linux/string_helpers.h
• F lib/string.c
• F lib/string_helpers.c
• F lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c
• F lib/tests/string_kunit.c
• F scripts/coccinelle/api/string_choices.cocci

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 5 patches in this subsystem on bpf, ordered by date desc.

• STALE166d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] vsnprintf: drop __printf() attributes on binary printing functions
  2026-02-04 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE174d Re: [PATCH] bpf: add missing __printf attributes
  2026-02-03 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE683d Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE1009d [PATCH] strstarts: avoid calling strlen() if first char does not match
  2023-10-22 · James Tirta Halim <hidden>
• STALE1691d [PATCH -next 1/2] string.h: Introduce memset_range() for wiping members
  2021-12-08 · Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.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.

• STALE166d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] vsnprintf: drop __printf() attributes on binary printing functions
  2026-02-04 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> · 1 Acked-by