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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: [PATCH v4 11/11] docs: core-api: Document the seq_buf API
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2026 20:59:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003035921.1918874-11-kees@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003035906.too.263-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 50b1e78eeea6..c97dd9b0ba53 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 8da2e9447adf..54b76044e4ba 100644
--- a/lib/seq_buf.c
+++ b/lib/seq_buf.c
@@ -409,12 +409,13 @@ 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.
  */
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-03  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-03  3:59 [PATCH v4 00/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] seq_buf: Do not print an empty line from an overflowed seq_buf_do_printk() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  4:50   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] seq_buf: Do not pop from an overflowed seq_buf Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] seq_buf: Copy what fits when seq_buf_puts() and seq_buf_putmem() overflow Kees Cook
2026-10-03  4:50   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] seq_buf: Clear what a writer did not claim when a seq_buf overflows Kees Cook
2026-10-03  4:50   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 15:36   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-10-04  7:26     ` Kees Cook
2026-10-04  8:34       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_terminate() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] bpf: Remove dead newline stripping from format_disasm_line() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_init_append() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  4:33   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-03 10:31     ` Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] powerpc/papr_scm: Return the string length from the sysfs show functions Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] nvdimm: ndtest: Return the string length from flags_show() Kees Cook
2026-10-03  3:59 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2026-10-03  6:32 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Alexei Starovoitov

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