This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -none to the 4.9-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-kernel-doc-don-t-fail-with-status-0-if-error-encountered-with-none.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:48:40 CET 2018 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:20:03 +0000 Subject: scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -none From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit e814bccbafece52a24e152d2395b5d49eef55841 ] My bisect scripts starting running into build failures when trying to compile 4.15-rc1 with the builds failing with things like: drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c:2078: error: Cannot parse struct or union! The line in question is actually just a #define, but after some digging it turns out that my scripts pass W=1 and since commit 3a025e1d1c2ea ("Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments") that results in kernel-doc running on each source file. The file in question has a badly formatted comment immediately before the #define: /** * struct brcmf_skbuff_cb reserves first two bytes in sk_buff::cb for * bus layer usage. */ which causes the regex in dump_struct to fail (lack of braces following struct declaration) and kernel-doc returns 1, which causes the build to fail. Fix the issue by always returning 0 from kernel-doc when invoked with -none. It successfully generates no documentation, and prints out any issues. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -3139,4 +3139,4 @@ if ($verbose && $warnings) { print STDERR "$warnings warnings\n"; } -exit($errors); +exit($output_mode eq "none" ? 0 : $errors); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/scripts-kernel-doc-don-t-fail-with-status-0-if-error-encountered-with-none.patch