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 17 patches in this subsystem on linux-security-module, ordered by date desc.

• STALE380d Re: linux-next: Tree for May 16 (security/landlock/ruleset.c)
  2025-05-19 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE629d Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE722d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] mm: new primitive kvmemdup()
  2022-12-21 · Hao Sun <hidden>
• STALE1479d [PATCH 02/32] Introduce flexible array struct memcpy() helpers
  2022-05-04 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1584d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v2 01/11] lib/string_helpers: Consolidate string helpers implementation
  2022-01-26 · Lucas De Marchi <hidden>
• STALE1590d [PATCH 2/3] lib/string_helpers: Add helpers for enable[d]/disable[d]
  2022-01-19 · Lucas De Marchi <hidden>
• STALE1590d [PATCH 1/3] lib/string_helpers: Consolidate yesno() implementation
  2022-01-19 · Lucas De Marchi <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 3/3][V2] lib: re-introduce new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 2/3][V2] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 1/3][V2] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-28 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper when array size is positive
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match_string() helper/macro
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 02/16] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE2563d [PATCH 01/16] lib: fix match_string() helper on -1 array size
  2019-05-08 · Alexandru Ardelean <hidden>
• STALE3212d [PATCH 01/27] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data [ver #5]
  2017-06-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE3348d [PATCH 9/9] kernel-api.rst: fix a series of errors when parsing C files
  2017-03-30 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <hidden>