Re: [PATCH] posix-acl: avoid -Wempty-body warning

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon Mar 22 2021 - 08:16:37 EST


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:38:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The fallthrough comment for an ignored cmpxchg() return value
> produces a harmless warning with 'make W=1':
>
> fs/posix_acl.c: In function 'get_acl':
> fs/posix_acl.c:127:36: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'if' statement [-Werror=empty-body]
> 127 | /* fall through */ ;
> | ^
>
> Rewrite it as gcc suggests as a step towards a clean W=1 build.
> On most architectures, we could just drop the if() entirely, but
> in some cases this causes a different warning.

And you don't see the warning for the second unconditional
cmpxchg(p, sentinel, ACL_NOT_CACHED);
below?

>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

In any case that should be fine,
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>