Re: [PATCH] fs: porting.rst: use literal string to avoid warning

From: Jan Kara

Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 05:34:44 EST


On Thu 24-09-26 11:39:15, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Avoid the docutils warning:
>
> Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst:1417: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. [docutils]
>
> by quoting the const pointer in literal quotation marks.
> (Adding a space between the '*' and the '.' also works but it looks odd.)
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202609231806.ILZP6Fy0-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 025756ee7b47 ("fs: port mnt_idmap() and file_mnt_idmap() to const mnt_idmap")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20260923.orig/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> +++ linux-next-20260923/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> @@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ All struct mnt_idmap pointers handed to
> ->create(), ->mkdir(), ->mknod(), ->symlink(), ->rename(), ->setattr(),
> ->getattr(), ->permission(), ->tmpfile(), ->get_acl(), ->set_acl() and
> ->fileattr_set() as well as the xattr ->set() handler and the vfs_*()
> -helpers take a const struct mnt_idmap *. mnt_idmap() and file_mnt_idmap()
> +helpers take a ``const struct mnt_idmap *``. mnt_idmap() and file_mnt_idmap()
> return one. The idmapping is immutable so nothing should have modified it
> anyway. References are taken and dropped via mnt_idmap_get() and
> mnt_idmap_put() as before, both accept a const pointer.
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR