diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 70bea942b4135b6a607bdb8ded0f50f0142aba40..9922e66883a5b763eb2b24345b9925cbe06db3c3 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1753,7 +1753,7 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
 	# strip kmemcheck_bitfield_{begin,end}.*;
 	$members =~ s/kmemcheck_bitfield_.*?;//gos;
 	# strip attributes
-	$members =~ s/__aligned\s*\(.+\)//gos;
+	$members =~ s/__aligned\s*\([^;]*\)//gos;
 
 	create_parameterlist($members, ';', $file);
 	check_sections($file, $declaration_name, "struct", $sectcheck, $struct_actual, $nested);