From e5a5276695b0df12eea8a694afc8bca87a8162a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:31:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: Do not process backslash lines in
 comments

To prevent this, do the pre-processing only for lines which are no
comments, e.g. do not start with ' *'.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122093152.22536-3-anna-maria@linutronix.de
---
 scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index e8aefd258a29a..4277af79de865 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -2331,7 +2331,7 @@ sub process_file($) {
 
     $section_counter = 0;
     while (<IN_FILE>) {
-	while (s/\\\s*$//) {
+	while (!/^ \*/ && s/\\\s*$//) {
 	    $_ .= <IN_FILE>;
 	}
 	# Replace tabs by spaces
-- 
2.30.2