From 4c98ecaf350737cd424eb94140e9e9f1a3408956 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: fix empty function description section scripts/kernel-doc mishandles a function that has a multi-line function short description and no function parameters. The observed problem was from drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c: /** * scsi_netlink_init - Called by SCSI subsystem to intialize * the SCSI transport netlink interface * **/ kernel-doc treated the " * " line as a Description: section with only a newline character in the Description contents. This caused output_highlight() to complain: "output_highlight got called with no args?", plus produce a perl call stack backtrace. The fix is just to ignore Description sections if they only contain "\n". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index 208ad3b0ca51..c7865c362d28 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ sub process_file($) { $section = $newsection; } elsif (/$doc_end/) { - if ($contents ne "") { + if (($contents ne "") && ($contents ne "\n")) { dump_section($file, $section, xml_escape($contents)); $section = $section_default; $contents = ""; -- GitLab