scripts/kernel-doc: fix identifier parsing regex

John wrote:

> kernel-doc gets confused by code like the following:
>
> /**
>  * define HOMA_MIN_DEFAULT_PORT - The 16-bit port space is divided into
>  * two nonoverlapping regions. Ports 1-32767 are reserved exclusively
>  * for well-defined server ports. The remaining ports are used for client
>  * ports; these are allocated automatically by Homa. Port 0 is reserved.
>  */
> #define HOMA_MIN_DEFAULT_PORT 0x8000
>
> It seems to use the last "-" on the line (the one in "16-bit") rather
> than the first one, so it produces the following false error message:
>
> homa.h:50: warning: expecting prototype for HOMA_MIN_DEFAULT_PORT -
> The 16(). Prototype was for HOMA_MIN_DEFAULT_PORT() instead
>
> There are similar problems if there is a ":" later on the line.

The problem is the regex for the identifier, which is a greedy /.*/ that
matches everything up to the last - or : (i.e. $decl_end). Fix it by
tightening up this regex and not matching those characters as part of the
identifier.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGXJAmzfRzE=A94NT5ETtj3bZc-=2oLg-9E5Kjh4o_-iuw1q8g@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: John Ousterhout <ouster@cs.stanford.edu>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241221222214.1969823-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

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