[PATCH v4 15/41] docs: kdoc_re: properly handle strings and escape chars on it
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-31 14:25:22
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
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> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted> --- 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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