On 9/26/21 3:57 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:

On 7/15/21 3:34 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 09:14:03AM +0800, Jia He wrote:

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Kernel doc validator complains:
   Function parameter or member 'p' not described in 'prepend_name'
   Excess function parameter 'buffer' description in 'prepend_name'

Yup!
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>

Can we get someone to merge this, please?

Ho hum.  Justin, please resubmit your patch with Andy's Reviewed-by:
and my Acked-by:.  Send it to Andrew Morton and ask him to merge it.

Thanks.


(cf. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210628014613.11296-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/ (local)
from 2021-06-27)

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Fixes: ad08ae586586 ("d_path: introduce struct prepend_buffer")
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <redacted>
---
  fs/d_path.c | 8 +++-----
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index 23a53f7b5c71..4eb31f86ca88 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c

@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@ static void prepend(struct prepend_buffer *p, const char *str, int namelen)

  /**
   * prepend_name - prepend a pathname in front of current buffer pointer
- * @buffer: buffer pointer
- * @buflen: allocated length of the buffer
- * @name:   name string and length qstr structure
+ * @p: prepend buffer which contains buffer pointer and allocated length
+ * @name: name string and length qstr structure
   *
   * With RCU path tracing, it may race with d_move(). Use READ_ONCE() to
   * make sure that either the old or the new name pointer and length are

@@ -108,8 +107,7 @@ static int __prepend_path(const struct dentry *dentry, const struct mount *mnt,

   * prepend_path - Prepend path string to a buffer
   * @path: the dentry/vfsmount to report
   * @root: root vfsmnt/dentry
- * @buffer: pointer to the end of the buffer
- * @buflen: pointer to buffer length
+ * @p: prepend buffer which contains buffer pointer and allocated length
   *
   * The function will first try to write out the pathname without taking any
   * lock other than the RCU read lock to make sure that dentries won't go away.
-- 

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~Randy