Re: [PATCH] docs: conf.py: Ignore __counted_by attribute

[Randy Dunlap]

On 12/14/23 16:13, Kees Cook wrote:
> It seems that Sphinx is confused by the __counted_by attribute on struct
> members. Add it to the list of known attributes.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312150614.kOx8xUkr-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/conf.py | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
> index d4fdf6a3875a..5898c74b96fb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ if major >= 3:
>              "__weak",
>              "noinline",
>              "__fix_address",
> +            "__counted_by",
>  
>              # include/linux/memblock.h:
>              "__init_memblock",

If Sphinx needs to know about that, then fine. OTOH, for scripts/kernel-doc,
a similar change could have been made to dump_struct(), along with these
others:

	# strip attributes
	$members =~ s/\s*$attribute/ /gi;
	$members =~ s/\s*__aligned\s*\([^;]*\)/ /gos;
	$members =~ s/\s*__packed\s*/ /gos;
	$members =~ s/\s*CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR/ /gos;
	$members =~ s/\s*____cacheline_aligned_in_smp/ /gos;
	$members =~ s/\s*____cacheline_aligned/ /gos;


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