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 15 patches in this subsystem on linux-block, ordered by date desc.

• STALE719d [PATCH v4 3/5] string: add strends() helper to check if a string ends with a suffix
  2024-09-30 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• STALE1762d [PATCH v2 27/63] fortify: Move remaining fortify helpers into fortify-string.h
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1762d [PATCH v2 26/63] lib/string: Move helper functions out of string.c
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1762d [PATCH v2 37/63] string.h: Introduce memset_after() for wiping trailing members/padding
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1762d [PATCH v2 34/63] fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1864d [PATCH 37/64] string.h: Introduce memset_after() for wiping trailing members/padding
  2021-07-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1864d [PATCH 34/64] fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time
  2021-07-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1864d [PATCH 29/64] lib/string: Move helper functions out of string.c
  2021-07-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1864d [PATCH 30/64] fortify: Move remaining fortify helpers into fortify-string.h
  2021-07-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2446d [RFC 1/9] lib/string: Add function to trim duplicate WS
  2019-12-23 · Tony Asleson <hidden>
• STALE3363d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [GIT PULL] libnvdimm for 4.13
  2017-07-07 · Williams, Dan J <hidden>
• STALE3422d [PATCH v2] x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_wt for pmem / writethrough operations
  2017-04-28 · Dan Williams <hidden>
• STALE3422d [RFC PATCH] x86, uaccess, pmem: introduce copy_from_iter_writethru for dax + pmem
  2017-04-26 · Dan Williams <hidden>
• STALE3340d [resend PATCH v2 18/33] x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  2017-04-17 · Dan Williams <hidden>
• STALE3457d [PATCH 9/9] kernel-api.rst: fix a series of errors when parsing C files
  2017-03-30 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <hidden>