[04/10] docs/qapidoc: support header-less freeform sections

Commit Message

John Snow Feb. 24, 2025, 3:37 a.m. UTC

The code as written crashes when a free-form documentation block doesn't
start with a heading or subheading, for example:

| ##
| # Just text, no heading.
| ##

The code will attempt to use the `node` variable uninitialized. To fix,
create a generic block to insert the doc text into.

(This patch also removes a lingering pylint warning in the QAPIDoc
implementation that prevents getting a clean baseline to use for
forthcoming additions.)

Fixes: 43e0d14ee09a (docs/sphinx: fix extra stuff in TOC after freeform QMP sections)
Signed-off-by: John Snow <[e-mail]>
---
 docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py b/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
index 5f96b46270b..5a4d7388b29 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
+++ b/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@  def freeform(self, doc):
             node = self._start_new_heading(heading, len(leader))
             if text == '':
                 return
+        else:
+            node = nodes.container()
 
         self._parse_text_into_node(text, node)
         self._cur_doc = None