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 25 patches in this subsystem on linux-scsi, ordered by date desc.

• STALE518d [PATCH 10/10] string.h: Validate memtostr*()/strtomem*() arguments more carefully
  2025-02-07 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE783d LANDED [PATCH 1/5] string.h: Introduce memtostr() and memtostr_pad()
  2024-04-10 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE824d Re: startup BUG at lib/string_helpers.c from scsi fusion mptsas
  2024-04-08 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1518d [PATCH 02/32] Introduce flexible array struct memcpy() helpers
  2022-05-04 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2376d [RFC 1/9] lib/string: Add function to trim duplicate WS
  2019-12-23 · Tony Asleson <hidden>
• STALE2556d [PATCH 1/3][V3] lib: fix __sysfs_match_string() helper when n != -1
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE3613d [PATCH v5 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-08-10 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• STALE3643d [PATCH v4 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-07-22 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• STALE3645d Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-07-13 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• STALE3645d Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-07-13 · Markus Mayer <hidden>
• STALE3645d [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-07-08 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• STALE3658d [PATCH v2 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings
  2016-07-05 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• STALE3661d [PATCH 1/6] lib: string: add function strtolower()
  2016-06-30 · Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4] string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
  2015-11-07 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE3902d [PATCH v3] string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
  2015-11-03 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE3902d Re: [PATCH v2] string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
  2015-11-03 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE3902d [PATCH] string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
  2015-11-03 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE4140d [PATCH] sd, mmc, virtio_blk, string_helpers: fix block size units
  2015-03-06 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE4167d Re: [patch 069/104] lib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): remove redundant prefixes
  2015-02-14 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE6075d [PATCH] strstrip incorrectly marked __must_check
  2009-11-03 · James Bottomley <hidden>
• STALE6205d Re: [PATCH 0/3] scsi_dh: Make scsi device handler modules automatically inserted
  2009-07-08 · Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Checkin 7404ad3b6d04efbd918e9e2e776bf560fbedf47d breaks boot on KVM
  2008-10-14 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
• STALE6481d [PATCH 2/2] string_get_size(): don't hang on zero; no decimals on exact
  2008-10-14 · "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] lib: fix string_get_size compile warning
  2008-09-07 · FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
• STALE6519d [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range
  2008-08-31 · James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>