Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] d_path: fix Kernel doc validator complaints

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Sep 26 2021 - 18:57:35 EST


On 7/15/21 3:34 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 09:14:03AM +0800, Jia He wrote:
Kernel doc validator complains:
Function parameter or member 'p' not described in 'prepend_name'
Excess function parameter 'buffer' description in 'prepend_name'

Yup!
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can we get someone to merge this, please?

Fixes: ad08ae586586 ("d_path: introduce struct prepend_buffer")
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/d_path.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index 23a53f7b5c71..4eb31f86ca88 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c
@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@ static void prepend(struct prepend_buffer *p, const char *str, int namelen)
/**
* prepend_name - prepend a pathname in front of current buffer pointer
- * @buffer: buffer pointer
- * @buflen: allocated length of the buffer
- * @name: name string and length qstr structure
+ * @p: prepend buffer which contains buffer pointer and allocated length
+ * @name: name string and length qstr structure
*
* With RCU path tracing, it may race with d_move(). Use READ_ONCE() to
* make sure that either the old or the new name pointer and length are
@@ -108,8 +107,7 @@ static int __prepend_path(const struct dentry *dentry, const struct mount *mnt,
* prepend_path - Prepend path string to a buffer
* @path: the dentry/vfsmount to report
* @root: root vfsmnt/dentry
- * @buffer: pointer to the end of the buffer
- * @buflen: pointer to buffer length
+ * @p: prepend buffer which contains buffer pointer and allocated length
*
* The function will first try to write out the pathname without taking any
* lock other than the RCU read lock to make sure that dentries won't go away.
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~Randy