Re: [linux-next:master 8662/12838] htmldocs: MAINTAINERS:40: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. [docutils]

[Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>]

Il giorno gio 9 apr 2026 alle ore 07:24 kernel test robot
<lkp@intel.com> ha scritto:
>
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> head:   db7efce4ae23ad5e42f5f55428f529ff62b86fab
> commit: 420849332f9f9f1ce6ff142868ae2e6ae9f98f65 [8662/12838] get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support
> compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
> docutils: docutils (Docutils 0.21.2, Python 3.13.5, on linux)
> reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260409/202604090741.1kUVXMoc-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
>
> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202604090741.1kUVXMoc-lkp@intel.com/
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
>    Checksumming on output with GSO
>    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [docutils]
> >> MAINTAINERS:40: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. [docutils]
>    Documentation/userspace-api/landlock:480: ./security/landlock/errata/abi-4.h:5: ERROR: Unexpected section title.
>
>

The problem is that "**" is seen as start of a bold text in RST.
Escaping the first * fixes error and keeps the glob unaffected:

--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
     F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net
     F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below
     F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net
-    F: fs/**/*foo*.c all *foo*.c files in any subdirectory of fs
+    F: fs/\**/*foo*.c all *foo*.c files in any subdirectory of fs
     One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
  X: *Excluded* files and directories that are NOT maintained, same
     rules as F:. Files exclusions are tested before file matches.

should I create a fix patch or we can still amend the previous in net-next?

Regards,
-- 
Matteo Croce

perl -e 'for($t=0;;$t++){print chr($t*($t>>8|$t>>13)&255)}' |aplay