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 12 patches in this subsystem on linux-devicetree, ordered by date desc.

• STALE427d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2 12/14] lib: Allow modules to use strnchrnul
  2025-04-09 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE432d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 10/28] lib: Allow modules to use strnchrnul
  2025-04-07 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE627d [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>
• STALE1398d LANDED [PATCH v7 1/4] lib/string_helpers: Add str_read_write() helper
  2022-08-22 · Dmitry Rokosov <hidden>
• STALE1401d [PATCH v6 1/4] lib/string_helpers: Add str_read_write() helper
  2022-08-16 · Dmitry Rokosov <hidden>
• STALE1391d [PATCH v5 1/7] lib/string_helpers: Add str_read_write() helper
  2022-08-12 · Dmitry Rokosov <hidden>
• STALE1495d [PATCH 02/32] Introduce flexible array struct memcpy() helpers
  2022-05-04 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1713d [PATCH 3/9] lib/string: add sysfs_buf_streq()
  2021-10-07 · Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
• STALE3419d [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper
  2017-02-06 · Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com>
• STALE3992d [PATCH v2 03/12] string: Introduce strends()
  2015-07-01 · Tomeu Vizoso <hidden>
• STALE4411d [PATCH 1/3] lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  2014-05-13 · Grant Likely <hidden>
• STALE4480d [RFC v3 2/3] lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  2014-03-14 · Grant Likely <hidden>