[PATCH 02/38] docs: kdoc_re: don't go past the end of a line
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-18 10:13:18
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
The logic which checks if the line ends with ";" is currently broken: it may try to read past the buffer. Fix it by checking before trying to access line[pos]. 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_re.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 774dd747ecb0..6c44fcce0415 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ class NestedMatch: out += new_sub # Drop end ';' if any - if line[pos] == ';': + if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';': pos += 1 cur_pos = pos
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