The patch titled Subject: kernel-doc: core-api: Include string.h into core-api has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel-doc: core-api: Include string.h into core-api correct return of -E2BIG descriptions Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/29f998b4c1a9d69fbeae70500ba0daa4b340c546.1563889130.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/string.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/string.c~kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2 +++ a/lib/string.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlcpy); * * Returns: * * The number of characters copied (not including the trailing %NUL) - * * -E2BIG if count is 0. + * * -E2BIG if count is 0 or @src was truncated. */ ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count) { @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strscpy); * * Returns: * * The number of characters copied (not including the trailing %NUL) - * * -E2BIG if count is 0. + * * -E2BIG if count is 0 or @src was truncated. */ ssize_t strscpy_pad(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are string-add-stracpy-and-stracpy_pad-mechanisms.patch kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api.patch kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2.patch checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch