Re: [PATCH] scripts: docs: kdoc_files.py: don't consider symlinks as directories

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

> As reported by Randy, currently kdoc_files can go into endless
> looks when symlinks are used:
>
> 	$ ln -s . Documentation/peci/foo
> 	$ ./scripts/kernel-doc Documentation/peci/
> 	...
> 	  File "/new_devel/docs/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py", line 52, in _parse_dir
> 	    if entry.is_dir():
> 	       ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
> 	OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: 'Documentation/peci/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo'
>
> Prevent that by not considering symlinks as directories.
>
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/80701524-09fd-4d68-8715-331f47c969f2@infradead.org/
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

This looks the same as yesterday's version?

Applied, anyway, thanks.

jon