[PATCH 07/38] docs: kdoc_parser: fix variable regexes to work with size_t

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18T10:13:20Z

The regular expressions meant to pick variable types are too
naive: they forgot that the type word may contain underlines.

Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
---
tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index b704755d2f0a..b63d91b7f79e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -1028,14 +1028,14 @@ class KernelDoc:

default_val = None

- r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"\w.*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
+ r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"[\w_]*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
if r.match(proto):
if not declaration_name:
declaration_name = r.group(1)

default_val = r.group(2)
else:
- r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:\w.*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
+ r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
if r.match(proto):
default_val = r.group(1)

--
2.52.0