Re: kernel-doc comment with anonymous variable in anonymous union?

From: Bagas Sanjaya

Date: Mon Dec 15 2025 - 06:11:37 EST


On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 05:40:43PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 04:12:44PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > kernel-doc reports warning on include/crypto/skcipher.h:
> >
> > WARNING: ./include/crypto/skcipher.h:166 struct member 'SKCIPHER_ALG_COMMON' not described in 'skcipher_alg'
> >
> > skciper_alg struct is defined as:
> >
> > struct skcipher_alg {
> > int (*setkey)(struct crypto_skcipher *tfm, const u8 *key,
> > unsigned int keylen);
> > int (*encrypt)(struct skcipher_request *req);
> > int (*decrypt)(struct skcipher_request *req);
> > int (*export)(struct skcipher_request *req, void *out);
> > int (*import)(struct skcipher_request *req, const void *in);
> > int (*init)(struct crypto_skcipher *tfm);
> > void (*exit)(struct crypto_skcipher *tfm);
> >
> > unsigned int walksize;
> >
> > union {
> > struct SKCIPHER_ALG_COMMON;
> > struct skcipher_alg_common co;
> > };
> > };
> >
> > Note the first member in the union, which is an anonymous (i.e. unnamed) variable.
> >
> > What can I do on it? Should the offending member be deleted?
>
> You could either add a comment about SKCIPHER_ALG_COMMON, or
> fix up all the code that uses it by adding "co."

But that SKCIPHER_ALG_COMMON doesn't have any variable name, though.

Jon?

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