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 11 patches in this subsystem on linux-omap, ordered by date desc.

• STALE351d [PATCH v3 01/15] lib: provide kmemdup_const()
  2025-07-24 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE765d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1077d LANDED [PATCH v2 1/4] lib/string_helpers: Add kstrdup_and_replace() helper
  2023-08-04 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1077d [PATCH v1 1/4] lib/string_helpers: Add kstrdup_and_replace() helper
  2023-06-28 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 3/3][V2] lib: re-introduce new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 2/3][V2] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 1/3][V2] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper when array size is positive
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 02/16] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2605d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>