Re: [PATCH] scripts: headers_install: fix a false positive

[Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>]

On 5/15/25 19:32, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 12:00:56AM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
>> The current implementation only handles C89 style comments (/*... */) in
>> the code, and there are false positives for C99 style comments (//...).
>>
>> This patch fixes this issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>
>> ---
>>   scripts/headers_install.sh | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.sh b/scripts/headers_install.sh
>> index 6bbccb43f7e7..41722bcc8668 100755
>> --- a/scripts/headers_install.sh
>> +++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
>> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ $TMPFILE > $OUTFILE
>>   # Remove /* ... */ style comments, and find CONFIG_ references in code
>>   configs=$(sed -e '
>>   :comment
>> +	s://.*::
>>   	s:/\*[^*][^*]*:/*:
>>   	s:/\*\*\**\([^/]\):/*\1:
>>   	t comment
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
> 
> thanks.  The patch looks good to me, but I cannot find any false
> positives.  Have you found any concrete?
> 

Thanks. We have enhanced dmabuf on our SoC platform and modified the 
include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h file, and then found this issue.

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Best wishes,
Wen