Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] block: prohibit calls to bio_chain_endio

On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 10:47:47AM +0800, zhangshida wrote:
> From: Shida Zhang <[email protected]>
> 
> Now that all potential callers of bio_chain_endio have been
> eliminated, completely prohibit any future calls to this function.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Shida Zhang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/bio.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
> index b3a79285c27..cfb751dfcf5 100644
> --- a/block/bio.c
> +++ b/block/bio.c
> @@ -320,9 +320,13 @@ static struct bio *__bio_chain_endio(struct bio *bio)
>  	return parent;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * This function should only be used as a flag and must never be called.
> + * If execution reaches here, it indicates a serious programming error.
> + */

This is not a kerneldoc comment and thus should not use /** to start
the comment, otherwise the kerneldoc script will complain about
missing kernel doc elelemts.

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>