scripts/kernel-doc: fix empty function description section

scripts/kernel-doc mishandles a function that has a multi-line function
short description and no function parameters.  The observed problem was
from drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c:

/**
 * scsi_netlink_init - Called by SCSI subsystem to intialize
 * 	the SCSI transport netlink interface
 *
 **/

kernel-doc treated the " * " line as a Description: section with only a
newline character in the Description contents.  This caused
output_highlight() to complain: "output_highlight got called with no
args?", plus produce a perl call stack backtrace.

The fix is just to ignore Description sections if they only contain "\n".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 208ad3b0ca51baf955dc59a750f8d848c8465e01..c7865c362d28fdbe160c94bfdd54e40bf34f8dd5 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ sub process_file($) {
                $section = $newsection;
            } elsif (/$doc_end/) {
 
-               if ($contents ne "") {
+               if (($contents ne "") && ($contents ne "\n")) {
                    dump_section($file, $section, xml_escape($contents));
                    $section = $section_default;
                    $contents = "";