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 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-arch (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING14d [PATCH v4 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-06-03 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-27 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH v2 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-21 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE790d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 25/37] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2024-03-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE831d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 25/37] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2024-03-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE834d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 23/36] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2024-02-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE846d [PATCH v3 22/35] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE846d [PATCH v3 01/35] lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE968d [PATCH v2 24/39] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE968d [PATCH v2 01/39] lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1143d [PATCH 06/40] lib/string.c: strsep_no_empty()
  2023-05-01 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1143d [PATCH 01/40] lib/string_helpers: Drop space in string_get_size's output
  2023-05-01 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1378d [PATCH v7 25/43] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-09-15 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1325d [PATCH v6 26/44] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-09-05 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1386d [RFC PATCH 17/30] lib/string.c: strsep_no_empty()
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1386d [RFC PATCH 02/30] lib/string_helpers: Drop space in string_get_size's output
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1392d [PATCH v5 26/44] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-08-26 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1241d [PATCH v4 26/45] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-07-01 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1483d [PATCH v3 30/46] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-04-26 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1532d [PATCH v2 32/48] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-03-29 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1552d [PATCH 31/43] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2021-12-14 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1773d [PATCH v2 2/3] isystem: ship and use stdarg.h
  2021-08-02 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• STALE1773d [PATCH 2/3] isystem: ship and use stdarg.h
  2021-08-01 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• STALE1809d [PATCH v2 3/3] lib/string: optimized memset
  2021-07-02 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE1809d [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/string: optimized memmove
  2021-07-02 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE1809d [PATCH v2 1/3] lib/string: optimized memcpy
  2021-07-02 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE1820d [PATCH 3/3] lib/string: optimized memset
  2021-06-25 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE1820d [PATCH 2/3] lib/string: optimized memmove
  2021-06-25 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE1820d [PATCH 1/3] lib/string: optimized memcpy
  2021-06-25 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• STALE2102d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 01/30] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
  2020-09-18 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

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.

• COLD31d [PATCH v2 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-21 · Li Zhe <hidden>