From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 16:40:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: docs: kdoc_re: don't go past the end of a line
X-Git-Tag: v7.1-rc1~210^2~76^2~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8eb49357ffa229c9b65a002f655c1280dc09769a;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

docs: kdoc_re: don't go past the end of a line

The logic which checks if the line ends with ";" is currently
broken: it may try to read past the buffer.

Fix it by checking before trying to access line[pos].

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <bce51ba0260a053a0ec55a7375d6ed7a7c08026c.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 774dd747ecb02..6c44fcce04156 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ class NestedMatch:
             out += new_sub
 
             # Drop end ';' if any
-            if line[pos] == ';':
+            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
                 pos += 1
 
             cur_pos = pos