This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: fix kernel-doc warnings for socket.c to the 4.19-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: net-fix-kernel-doc-warnings-for-socket.c.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 70792d804991a307f7f07df7bb49a790c4b26b0b Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 18 21:23:07 2019 -0700 net: fix kernel-doc warnings for socket.c [ Upstream commit 85806af0c6bac0feb777e255a25fd5d0cf6ad38e ] Fix kernel-doc warnings by moving the kernel-doc notation to be immediately above the functions that it describes. Fixes these warnings for sock_sendmsg() and sock_recvmsg(): ../net/socket.c:658: warning: Excess function parameter 'sock' description in 'INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE' ../net/socket.c:658: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg' description in 'INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE' ../net/socket.c:889: warning: Excess function parameter 'sock' description in 'INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE' ../net/socket.c:889: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg' description in 'INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE' ../net/socket.c:889: warning: Excess function parameter 'flags' description in 'INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 86a7e0b69bd5 ("net: prevent rewrite of msg_name in sock_sendmsg()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index dc4d4ecd6cea2..adf1fb37c17c6 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -645,14 +645,6 @@ void __sock_tx_timestamp(__u16 tsflags, __u8 *tx_flags) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sock_tx_timestamp); -/** - * sock_sendmsg - send a message through @sock - * @sock: socket - * @msg: message to send - * - * Sends @msg through @sock, passing through LSM. - * Returns the number of bytes sent, or an error code. - */ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int inet_sendmsg(struct socket *, struct msghdr *, size_t)); static inline int sock_sendmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg) @@ -663,6 +655,14 @@ static inline int sock_sendmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg) return ret; } +/** + * sock_sendmsg - send a message through @sock + * @sock: socket + * @msg: message to send + * + * Sends @msg through @sock, passing through LSM. + * Returns the number of bytes sent, or an error code. + */ int sock_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg) { int err = security_socket_sendmsg(sock, msg, @@ -853,15 +853,6 @@ void __sock_recv_ts_and_drops(struct msghdr *msg, struct sock *sk, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__sock_recv_ts_and_drops); -/** - * sock_recvmsg - receive a message from @sock - * @sock: socket - * @msg: message to receive - * @flags: message flags - * - * Receives @msg from @sock, passing through LSM. Returns the total number - * of bytes received, or an error. - */ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int inet_recvmsg(struct socket *, struct msghdr *, size_t , int )); static inline int sock_recvmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, @@ -871,6 +862,15 @@ static inline int sock_recvmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, msg_data_left(msg), flags); } +/** + * sock_recvmsg - receive a message from @sock + * @sock: socket + * @msg: message to receive + * @flags: message flags + * + * Receives @msg from @sock, passing through LSM. Returns the total number + * of bytes received, or an error. + */ int sock_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, int flags) { int err = security_socket_recvmsg(sock, msg, msg_data_left(msg), flags);