linux-kernel - [PATCH] kdb: Corrects comment for kdballocenv

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Message-ID: <DB3PR10MB6835B383B596133EDECEA98AE8ABA@DB3PR10MB6835.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
Date:   Sun,  5 Nov 2023 13:18:08 +0530
From:   Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@...mail.com>
To:     kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@...mail.com>,
        jason.wessel@...driver.com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org,
        dianders@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] kdb: Corrects comment for kdballocenv

This patch corrects the comment for the kdballocenv function.
The previous comment incorrectly described the function's
parameters and return values.

Signed-off-by: Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@...mail.com>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index 438b868cbfa9..1aab8a05a145 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -272,11 +272,12 @@ char *kdbgetenv(const char *match)
  * kdballocenv - This function is used to allocate bytes for
  *	environment entries.
  * Parameters:
- *	match	A character string representing a numeric value
- * Outputs:
- *	*value  the unsigned long representation of the env variable 'match'
+ *	bytes	The number of bytes to allocate in the static buffer.
+ *
  * Returns:
- *	Zero on success, a kdb diagnostic on failure.
+ *   A pointer to the allocated space in the buffer on success.
+ *   NULL if bytes > size available in the envbuffer.
+ *
  * Remarks:
  *	We use a static environment buffer (envbuffer) to hold the values
  *	of dynamically generated environment variables (see kdb_set).  Buffer
-- 
2.25.1