diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 4305b2f2ec5e..8c0e07b7a70b 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
 	# strip kmemcheck_bitfield_{begin,end}.*;
 	$members =~ s/kmemcheck_bitfield_.*?;//gos;
 	# strip attributes
-	$members =~ s/__aligned\s*\(.+\)//gos;
+	$members =~ s/__aligned\s*\([^;]*\)//gos;
 
 	create_parameterlist($members, ';', $file);
 	check_sections($file, $declaration_name, "struct", $sectcheck, $struct_actual, $nested);