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.

• COLD28d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v11 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-31 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v10 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-10 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH v9 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-03 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v8 6/9] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-07-27 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v7 6/9] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-07-20 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE77d [PATCH v6 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nt() helpers
  2026-07-09 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH v5 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nt() helpers
  2026-07-01 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH v4 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-06-03 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v3 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-27 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH v2 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-21 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE889d 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>
• STALE930d 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>
• STALE933d 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>
• STALE945d [PATCH v3 22/35] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH v3 01/35] lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1067d [PATCH v2 24/39] mm/slab: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1067d [PATCH v2 01/39] lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1242d [PATCH 06/40] lib/string.c: strsep_no_empty()
  2023-05-01 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1242d [PATCH 01/40] lib/string_helpers: Drop space in string_get_size's output
  2023-05-01 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1476d [PATCH v7 25/43] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-09-15 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1424d [PATCH v6 26/44] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-09-05 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1484d [RFC PATCH 17/30] lib/string.c: strsep_no_empty()
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1484d [RFC PATCH 02/30] lib/string_helpers: Drop space in string_get_size's output
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1491d [PATCH v5 26/44] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-08-26 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1340d [PATCH v4 26/45] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-07-01 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1582d [PATCH v3 30/46] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-04-26 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1631d [PATCH v2 32/48] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2022-03-29 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1651d [PATCH 31/43] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2021-12-14 · Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
• STALE1872d [PATCH v2 2/3] isystem: ship and use stdarg.h
  2021-08-02 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• STALE1872d [PATCH 2/3] isystem: ship and use stdarg.h
  2021-08-01 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>

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.

• STALE129d [PATCH v2 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-21 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v3 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_streaming() helpers
  2026-05-27 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v7 6/9] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-07-20 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v8 6/9] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-07-27 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH v9 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-03 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v10 6/8] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-10 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COLD28d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v11 5/7] string: introduce memcpy_nontemporal()
  2026-08-31 · Li Zhe <hidden>