This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scripts-find-unused-docs-fix-massive-false-positives.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1630146db2111412e7524d05d812ff8f2c75977e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:31:07 +0100 Subject: scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1630146db2111412e7524d05d812ff8f2c75977e upstream. scripts/find-unused-docs.sh invokes scripts/kernel-doc to find out if a source file contains kerneldoc or not. However, as it passes the no longer supported "-text" option to scripts/kernel-doc, the latter prints out its help text, causing all files to be considered containing kerneldoc. Get rid of these false positives by removing the no longer supported "-text" option from the scripts/kernel-doc invocation. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.16+ Fixes: b05142675310d2ac ("scripts: kernel-doc: get rid of unused output formats") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127093107.26401-1-geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/find-unused-docs.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/find-unused-docs.sh +++ b/scripts/find-unused-docs.sh @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ for file in `find $1 -name '*.c'`; do if [[ ${FILES_INCLUDED[$file]+_} ]]; then continue; fi - str=$(scripts/kernel-doc -text -export "$file" 2>/dev/null) + str=$(scripts/kernel-doc -export "$file" 2>/dev/null) if [[ -n "$str" ]]; then echo "$file" fi Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/scripts-find-unused-docs-fix-massive-false-positives.patch