From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
nikitash.mariiaw@gmail.com, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 11/11] docs: core-api: Document the seq_buf API
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:52:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930235247.157921-11-kees@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930235231.out.387-kees@kernel.org>
The kernel-doc in include/linux/seq_buf.h and lib/seq_buf.c documents
the seq_buf interface, but no .rst file pulls either of them in, so none
of it reaches the generated documentation.
Add the missing kernel-doc for seq_buf_clear() and seq_buf_init(), and a
Sequence Buffers section to the kernel API documentation. The static
internal helper seq_buf_can_fit() is left out. Additionally fix
seq_buf_hex_dump() indentation to avoid the reported Sphinx error:
ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Verified with "make SPHINXDIRS=core-api htmldocs", which rendered
happily into core-api/kernel-api.html.
Assisted-by: LLM
Co-developed-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 9 +++++++++
include/linux/seq_buf.h | 12 ++++++++++++
lib/seq_buf.c | 13 +++++++------
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
index 4c4a57c1c094..f5a0aedbbb48 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,15 @@ Error Pointers
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/err.h
:internal:
+Sequence Buffers
+----------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/seq_buf.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/seq_buf.c
+ :no-identifiers: seq_buf_can_fit
+
Sorting
-------
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_buf.h b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
index 4a2415fcb185..45fbde43e3b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_buf.h
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ struct seq_buf {
.size = SIZE, \
}
+/**
+ * seq_buf_clear - reset the seq_buf to be read / appended from the beginning
+ * @s: the seq_buf handle
+ */
static inline void seq_buf_clear(struct seq_buf *s)
{
s->len = 0;
@@ -38,6 +42,14 @@ static inline void seq_buf_clear(struct seq_buf *s)
s->buffer[0] = '\0';
}
+/**
+ * seq_buf_init - initialize a seq_buf
+ * @s: the seq_buf handle
+ * @buf: pointer to the buffer
+ * @size: total size of @buf
+ *
+ * The contents of the buffer are ignored.
+ */
static inline void
seq_buf_init(struct seq_buf *s, char *buf, unsigned int size)
{
diff --git a/lib/seq_buf.c b/lib/seq_buf.c
index 7e3bf837da01..1c86eae9e188 100644
--- a/lib/seq_buf.c
+++ b/lib/seq_buf.c
@@ -407,12 +407,13 @@ int seq_buf_to_user(struct seq_buf *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t start, int cnt)
*
* Function is an analogue of print_hex_dump() and thus has similar interface.
*
- * linebuf size is maximal length for one line.
- * 32 * 3 - maximum bytes per line, each printed into 2 chars + 1 for
- * separating space
- * 2 - spaces separating hex dump and ASCII representation
- * 32 - ASCII representation
- * 1 - terminating '\0'
+ * linebuf size is maximal length for one line::
+ *
+ * 32 * 3 - maximum bytes per line, each printed into 2 chars + 1 for
+ * separating space
+ * 2 - spaces separating hex dump and ASCII representation
+ * 32 - ASCII representation
+ * 1 - terminating '\0'
*
* Returns: zero on success, -1 on overflow.
*/
--
2.34.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 23:52 [PATCH v3 00/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] seq_buf: Do not print an empty line from an overflowed seq_buf_do_printk() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] seq_buf: Do not pop from an overflowed seq_buf Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] seq_buf: Copy what fits when seq_buf_puts() and seq_buf_putmem() overflow Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] seq_buf: Clear what a writer did not claim when a seq_buf overflows Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_terminate() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] bpf: Remove dead newline stripping from format_disasm_line() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_init_append() Kees Cook
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] powerpc/papr_scm: Return the string length from the sysfs show functions Kees Cook
2026-10-01 4:17 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2026-09-30 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] nvdimm: ndtest: Return the string length from flags_show() Kees Cook
2026-10-01 5:40 ` Alison Schofield
2026-09-30 23:52 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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