Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]> writes:

> The `__counted_by_ptr` macro was recently introduced [1] to extend
> bounds checking semantics to standard dynamically allocated pointers.
>
> However, the new Python implementation of kernel-doc does not currently
> recognize it as a compiler attribute. When kernel-doc encounters a
> struct member annotated with this macro, it fails to parse the variable
> name correctly, resulting in false-positive warnings like:
>
>   Warning: ... struct member '__counted_by_ptr(cmdcnt' not described
>
> Add `__counted_by_ptr` to the `struct_xforms` regex list so it gets
> safely stripped out during the parsing phase, mirroring the existing
> behavior for `__counted_by`. Update the corresponding unit tests.
>
> Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/150a04d817d8 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/lib/python/kdoc/xforms_lists.py | 1 +
>  tools/unittests/test_cmatch.py        | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

jon

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