Some annotations macros may have nested parenthesis, causing normal
regex parsing to fail. The __attribute__ regex is currently very
complex to try to avoid that, but it doesn't catch all cases.

Ensure that the parenthesis will be properly handled by using
the NestedMatch() logic.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 4b2b0a0d25f8..0310aff7b2fe 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ struct_nested_prefixes = [
 # the start delimiter.
 #
 function_nested_prefixes = [
+    (re.compile(r"__attribute__\s*\("), ""),
 ]
 
 #
@@ -198,7 +199,6 @@ function_xforms = [
     (KernRe(r"__diagnose_as\s*\(\s*\S+\s*(?:,\s*\d+\s*)*\) +"), ""),
     (KernRe(r"DECL_BUCKET_PARAMS\s*\(\s*(\S+)\s*,\s*(\S+)\s*\)"), r"\1, \2"),
     (KernRe(r"__attribute_const__ +"), ""),
-    (KernRe(r"__attribute__\s*\(\((?:[\w\s]+(?:\([^)]*\))?\s*,?)+\)\)\s+"), ""),
 ]
 
 #
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