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 6 patches in this subsystem on cip-dev, ordered by date desc.

• STALE356d [PATCH 6.1.y-cip 13/57] lib/string_helpers: Split out string_choices.h
  2025-07-14 · Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
• STALE460d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1.y-cip 29/43] mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array()
  2025-03-31 · Tommaso Merciai <tommaso.merciai.xr@bp.renesas.com>
• STALE473d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1.y-cip 51/85] mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array()
  2025-03-13 · Tommaso Merciai <tommaso.merciai.xr@bp.renesas.com>
• STALE889d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 4.4 2/4] string.h: un-fortify memcpy_and_pad
  2024-01-11 · Alexander Grund <hidden>
• STALE889d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 4.4 3/4] string: uninline memcpy_and_pad
  2024-01-11 · Alexander Grund <hidden>
• STALE889d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 4.4 1/4] string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()
  2024-01-11 · Alexander Grund <hidden>