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

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Message-ID: <a53fe942-609a-4103-9e63-6b65fa408dee@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:50:41 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: docs: kdoc_files.py: don't consider symlinks as
 directories



On 11/13/25 9:08 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:21:26AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.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@...radead.org>
>>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/80701524-09fd-4d68-8715-331f47c969f2@infradead.org/
>>> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
>>
>> This looks the same as yesterday's version?
> 
> I haven't changed it (but I was assuming yesterday's version was not sent). I had some bugs related to smtp proxy at the office....

That would be the one that I replied to that was missing a Subject: line
according to my mail client:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20251112171452.Y5jX9%25mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/

(actually there were several like that)

-- 
~Randy