[PATCH] eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning

From: Jann Horn
Date: Mon Jul 21 2025 - 13:10:49 EST


Sphinx complains that ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() has a kerneldoc-style
comment without documenting its parameters.
This is an internal function that was not meant to show up in kernel
documentation, so fix the warning by changing the comment to a
non-kerneldoc one.

Fixes: 22bacca48a17 ("epoll: prevent creating circular epoll structures")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717173655.10ecdce6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202507171958.aMcW08Cn-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This should go on the vfs misc branch. (Feel free to squash it or not,
idk how you do that in the VFS tree.)
---
fs/eventpoll.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 44648cc09250..02ac05322b1b 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -2192,9 +2192,7 @@ static int ep_loop_check_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, int depth)
return result;
}

-/**
- * ep_get_upwards_depth_proc - determine depth of @ep when traversed upwards
- */
+/* ep_get_upwards_depth_proc - determine depth of @ep when traversed upwards */
static int ep_get_upwards_depth_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, int depth)
{
int result = 0;

---
base-commit: 981569a06f704ac9c4eed249f47426e1be1a5636
change-id: 20250721-epoll-sphinx-fix-9716e46a52e6

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Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>