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[PATCH v3 15/30] docs: kdoc_re: properly handle strings and escape chars on it

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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-29 08:08:31
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Subsystem: documentation, documentation scripts, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds

Revision v3 of 3 in this series.

Revisions (3)
  1. v2 [diff vs current]
  2. v3 current
  3. v4 [diff vs current]
The logic inside NestedMatch currently doesn't consider that
function arguments may have chars and strings, which may
eventually contain delimiters.

Add logic to handle strings and escape characters on them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index a0402c065d3a..1861799f1966 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ class NestedMatch:
         for match_re in regex.finditer(line):
             start = match_re.start()
             offset = match_re.end()
+            string_char = None
+            escape = False
 
             d = line[offset - 1]
             if d not in self.DELIMITER_PAIRS:
@@ -208,6 +210,22 @@ class NestedMatch:
 
                 d = line[pos]
 
+                if escape:
+                    escape = False
+                    continue
+
+                if string_char:
+                    if d == '\\':
+                        escape = True
+                    elif d == string_char:
+                        string_char = None
+
+                    continue
+
+                if d in ('"', "'"):
+                    string_char = d
+                    continue
+
                 if d in self.DELIMITER_PAIRS:
                     end = self.DELIMITER_PAIRS[d]
 
-- 
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