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>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 19e777e2c97e..a0402c065d3a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ class NestedMatch:
             out += new_sub
 
             # Drop end ';' if any
-            if line[pos] == ';':
+            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
                 pos += 1
 
             cur_pos = pos
-- 
2.52.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org> On Behalf
> Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 5:50 PM
> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>; Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-
> doc@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>;
> bpf@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra
> <peterz@infradead.org>; Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>; Stephen
> Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 02/25] 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>
> ---
>  tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> index 19e777e2c97e..a0402c065d3a 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> +++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ class NestedMatch:
>              out += new_sub
> 
>              # Drop end ';' if any
> -            if line[pos] == ';':
> +            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
>                  pos += 1
> 
>              cur_pos = pos
> --
> 2.52.0
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>