2018-10-18 04:08:18

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination

From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Make declaration type determination more robust.

When scripts/kernel-doc is deciding if some kernel-doc notation
contains an enum, a struct, a union, a typedef, or a function,
it does a pattern match on the beginning of the string, looking
for a match with one of "struct", "union", "enum", or "typedef",
and otherwise defaults to a function declaration type.
However, if a function or a function-like macro has a name that
begins with "struct" (e.g., struct_size()), then kernel-doc
incorrectly decides that this is a struct declaration.

Fix this by looking for the declaration type keywords having an
ending word boundary (\b), so that "struct_size" will not match
a struct declaration.

I compared lots of html before/after output from core-api, driver-api,
and networking. There were no differences in any of the files that
I checked.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
---
scripts/kernel-doc | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- lnx-419-rc8.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ lnx-419-rc8/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1904,13 +1904,13 @@ sub process_name($$) {
++$warnings;
}

- if ($identifier =~ m/^struct/) {
+ if ($identifier =~ m/^struct\b/) {
$decl_type = 'struct';
- } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^union/) {
+ } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^union\b/) {
$decl_type = 'union';
- } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^enum/) {
+ } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^enum\b/) {
$decl_type = 'enum';
- } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^typedef/) {
+ } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^typedef\b/) {
$decl_type = 'typedef';
} else {
$decl_type = 'function';




2018-10-18 09:16:21

by Jani Nikula

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>
> Make declaration type determination more robust.
>
> When scripts/kernel-doc is deciding if some kernel-doc notation
> contains an enum, a struct, a union, a typedef, or a function,
> it does a pattern match on the beginning of the string, looking
> for a match with one of "struct", "union", "enum", or "typedef",
> and otherwise defaults to a function declaration type.
> However, if a function or a function-like macro has a name that
> begins with "struct" (e.g., struct_size()), then kernel-doc
> incorrectly decides that this is a struct declaration.
>
> Fix this by looking for the declaration type keywords having an
> ending word boundary (\b), so that "struct_size" will not match
> a struct declaration.

My perl is all cargo cult, so can't really review, but based on the
description this is what should be done,

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>

> I compared lots of html before/after output from core-api, driver-api,
> and networking. There were no differences in any of the files that
> I checked.

I used to do diff -r on pre and post change clean documentation builds
to verify this type of stuff.

BR,
Jani.

>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
> scripts/kernel-doc | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- lnx-419-rc8.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
> +++ lnx-419-rc8/scripts/kernel-doc
> @@ -1904,13 +1904,13 @@ sub process_name($$) {
> ++$warnings;
> }
>
> - if ($identifier =~ m/^struct/) {
> + if ($identifier =~ m/^struct\b/) {
> $decl_type = 'struct';
> - } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^union/) {
> + } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^union\b/) {
> $decl_type = 'union';
> - } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^enum/) {
> + } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^enum\b/) {
> $decl_type = 'enum';
> - } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^typedef/) {
> + } elsif ($identifier =~ m/^typedef\b/) {
> $decl_type = 'typedef';
> } else {
> $decl_type = 'function';
>
>

--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

2018-10-18 18:36:57

by Jonathan Corbet

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:07:27 -0700
Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>
> Make declaration type determination more robust.
>
> When scripts/kernel-doc is deciding if some kernel-doc notation
> contains an enum, a struct, a union, a typedef, or a function,
> it does a pattern match on the beginning of the string, looking
> for a match with one of "struct", "union", "enum", or "typedef",
> and otherwise defaults to a function declaration type.
> However, if a function or a function-like macro has a name that
> begins with "struct" (e.g., struct_size()), then kernel-doc
> incorrectly decides that this is a struct declaration.
>
> Fix this by looking for the declaration type keywords having an
> ending word boundary (\b), so that "struct_size" will not match
> a struct declaration.
>
> I compared lots of html before/after output from core-api, driver-api,
> and networking. There were no differences in any of the files that
> I checked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

jon