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-arm-kernel (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE86d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-11-12 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v3 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-10-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE200d [PATCH v2 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-10-22 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE214d [PATCH RFC 2/9] string: provide strends()
  2025-09-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE312d [PATCH v3 01/15] lib: provide kmemdup_const()
  2025-07-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE429d LANDED [PATCH v5 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-04-03 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE429d [PATCH v4 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-03-29 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE436d [PATCH v3 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-03-25 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE443d [PATCH v2 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-03-18 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE445d [PATCH] string: Disable read_word_at_a_time() optimizations if kernel MTE is enabled
  2025-03-08 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE1185d [PATCH v1 03/16] lib/string_choices: Add str_high_low() helper
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1185d [PATCH v1 04/16] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1185d [PATCH v1 02/16] lib/string_helpers: Split out string_choices.h
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1428d [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/string_helpers: Add str_read_write() helper
  2022-07-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1434d [PATCH v1 1/2] lib/string_helpers: Add str_read_write() helper
  2022-07-02 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1661d [PATCH v1 02/19] lib/string_helpers: Introduce managed variant of kasprintf_strarray()
  2021-11-05 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1661d [PATCH v1 01/19] lib/string_helpers: Introduce kasprintf_strarray()
  2021-11-05 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2012d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH mm v11 36/42] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-11-23 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2027d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH mm v10 36/42] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-11-13 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2032d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 38/44] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-11-10 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2039d [PATCH v8 37/43] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-11-04 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2040d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 35/41] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-11-02 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2043d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 34/40] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-10-29 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2040d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 34/40] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-10-12 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2067d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 34/39] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-10-01 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2074d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 34/39] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-09-24 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2084d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 01/30] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
  2020-09-18 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE2081d [PATCH v2 32/37] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-09-15 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
• STALE2083d [PATCH v2 03/28] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
  2020-09-03 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE2088d [PATCH 30/35] kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks
  2020-08-14 · Andrey Konovalov <hidden>