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 30 patches in this subsystem on stable (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.142
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 24 (24M) [PATCH 5.10 586/589] string: add mem_is_zero() helper to check if memory area is all zeros
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 24 (24M) [PATCH 5.15 773/776] string: add mem_is_zero() helper to check if memory area is all zeros
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD32d REVIEWED: 24 (24M) [PATCH 6.1 965/969] string: add mem_is_zero() helper to check if memory area is all zeros
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 24 (24M) [PATCH 6.6 178/186] string: add mem_is_zero() helper to check if memory area is all zeros
  2026-05-28 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE127d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH 6.19 310/781] vsnprintf: drop __printf() attributes on binary printing functions
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE210d Re: Linux 6.1.159
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.197
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.1 461/568] kernel.h: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to a separate header
  2025-12-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE206d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 299/392] kernel.h: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to a separate header
  2025-12-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.118
  2025-12-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE215d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.6 49/86] kernel.h: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to a separate header
  2025-11-27 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 1/2] string.h: add array-wrappers for (v)memdup_user()
  2025-06-30 · Fedor Pchelkin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.181
  2025-05-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE429d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 5.15 281/373] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-04-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE429d [PATCH 5.15 280/373] kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
  2025-04-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.14.4
  2025-04-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE435d Re: Linux 6.12.25
  2025-04-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.88
  2025-04-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.135
  2025-04-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (3M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2025-04-21 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE457d LANDED [PATCH v5 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-04-03 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE457d [PATCH v4 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()
  2025-03-29 · Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
• STALE457d [PATCH v3 2/2] lib/string.c: Add wcslen()
  2025-03-28 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE465d Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/string.c: Add wcslen()
  2025-03-26 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE465d [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/string.c: Add wcslen()
  2025-03-26 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE127d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD33d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.142
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>