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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:57:18 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC kspp-next 3/3] idpf: sprinkle __counted_by{,_le}() in
 the virtchnl2 header
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 02:03:54PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Both virtchnl2.h and its consumer idpf_virtchnl.c are very error-prone.
> There are 10 structures with flexible arrays at the end, but 9 of them
> has flex member counter in Little Endian.
> Make the code a bit more robust by applying __counted_by_le() to those
> 9. LE platforms is the main target for this driver, so they would
> receive additional protection.
> While we're here, add __counted_by() to virtchnl2_ptype::proto_id, as
> its counter is `u8` regardless of the Endianness.
> Compile test on x86_64 (LE) didn't reveal any new issues after applying
> the attributes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>

Hi Alexander,

with this patch applied ./scripts/kernel-doc -none reports the following.
I think that this means that the kernel-doc needs to be taught
about __counted_by_le (and __counted_by_be).

../virtchnl2.h:559: warning: Excess struct member 'chunks' description in 'virtchnl2_queue_reg_chunks'
../virtchnl2.h:707: warning: Excess struct member 'qinfo' description in 'virtchnl2_config_tx_queues'
../virtchnl2.h:786: warning: Excess struct member 'qinfo' description in 'virtchnl2_config_rx_queues'
../virtchnl2.h:872: warning: Excess struct member 'vchunks' description in 'virtchnl2_vector_chunks'
../virtchnl2.h:916: warning: Excess struct member 'lut' description in 'virtchnl2_rss_lut'
../virtchnl2.h:1108: warning: Excess struct member 'key_flex' description in 'virtchnl2_rss_key'
../virtchnl2.h:1199: warning: Excess struct member 'qv_maps' description in 'virtchnl2_queue_vector_maps'
../virtchnl2.h:1251: warning: Excess struct member 'mac_addr_list' description in 'virtchnl2_mac_addr_list'

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