[PATCH v4 07/41] docs: kdoc_parser: fix variable regexes to work with size_t
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-31 14:25:21
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
The regular expressions meant to pick variable types are too naive: they forgot that the type word may contain underlines. Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted> --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 64165d8df84e..201c4f7298d7 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py@@ -1027,14 +1027,14 @@ class KernelDoc: default_val = None - r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"\w.*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?") + r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"[\w_]*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?") if r.match(proto): if not declaration_name: declaration_name = r.group(1) default_val = r.group(2) else: - r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:\w.*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?") + r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?") if r.match(proto): default_val = r.group(1)
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