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 29 patches in this subsystem on linux-gpio, ordered by date desc.

• STALE136d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-11-12 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE258d [PATCH v3 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-10-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE251d [PATCH v2 01/10] string: provide strends()
  2025-10-22 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE264d [PATCH RFC 2/9] string: provide strends()
  2025-09-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE343d LANDED: 11 (10M) [PATCH v9 09/10] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-08-11 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE362d [PATCH v3 01/15] lib: provide kmemdup_const()
  2025-07-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE350d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v8 09/10] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-06-11 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE412d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v7 09/10] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-06-09 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE413d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 11/12] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-05-20 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE440d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v5 11/12] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-05-06 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE453d [PATCH v4 11/12] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2025-04-29 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• STALE776d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1236d [PATCH v1 03/16] lib/string_choices: Add str_high_low() helper
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1236d [PATCH v1 04/16] lib/string_choices: Add str_input_output() helper
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1236d [PATCH v1 02/16] lib/string_helpers: Split out string_choices.h
  2023-03-06 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1712d [PATCH v1 02/19] lib/string_helpers: Introduce managed variant of kasprintf_strarray()
  2021-11-05 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1712d [PATCH v1 01/19] lib/string_helpers: Introduce kasprintf_strarray()
  2021-11-05 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2127d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 01/10] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
  2020-09-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE2127d [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
  2020-09-28 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE2128d [PATCH 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
  2020-09-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE2145d [PATCH 02/23] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
  2020-09-04 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 3/3][V2] lib: re-introduce new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 2/3][V2] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 1/3][V2] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper when array size is positive
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 02/16] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2616d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE4029d [PATCH v2 03/12] string: Introduce strends()
  2015-07-01 · Tomeu Vizoso <hidden>