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 20 patches in this subsystem on linux-trace-kernel, ordered by date desc.

• COLD18d [PATCH v7 3/6] lib/string_kunit: Add test for copy_task_comm()
  2026-09-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH v6 3/6] lib/string_kunit: Add test for copy_task_comm()
  2026-09-10 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v5 3/6] lib/string_kunit: Add test for copy_task_comm()
  2026-08-27 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE238d Re: [PATCH] bpf: add missing __printf attributes
  2026-02-03 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE550d LANDED [PATCH v2 4/6] vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  2025-03-21 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE554d [PATCH v1 4/6] vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  2025-03-20 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE630d [PATCH v2 2/7] Provide __free(argv_free) for argv_split() users
  2025-01-06 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE623d [PATCH v2 2/6] Provide __free(argv) for argv_split() users
  2025-01-05 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE631d [PATCH 2/6] Provide __free(argv) for argv_split() users
  2025-01-03 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v2] tracing/string: Create and use __free(argv_free) in trace_dynevent.c
  2024-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE648d [PATCH 09/14] tracing/string: Create and use __free(argv_free) in trace_dynevent.c
  2024-12-19 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE598d REVIEWED: 39 (38M) [PATCH 3/6] lib: Move KUnit tests into tests/ subdirectory
  2024-10-11 · David Gow <hidden>
• STALE747d Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE718d [PATCH] lib: Move KUnit tests into tests/ subdirectory
  2024-07-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE840d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE979d [PATCH v4 1/7] string.h: add str_has_suffix() helper for test string ends with specify string
  2024-01-23 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE981d [PATCH v3 1/7] string.h: add str_has_suffix() helper for test string ends with specify string
  2024-01-23 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE981d [PATCH v2 1/7] string.h: add str_has_suffix() helper for test string ends with specify string
  2024-01-22 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE1021d [PATCH v2 18/33] lib/string: Add KMSAN support to strlcpy() and strlcat()
  2023-11-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1047d [PATCH 17/32] lib/string: Add KMSAN support to strlcpy() and strlcat()
  2023-11-15 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>