Re: [PATCH] x86: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 15:02 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:03:03PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
> > the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
> > fall-through markings when it is the case.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through
> 
> ...
> 
> > @@ -362,7 +361,6 @@ static short get_segment_selector(struct pt_regs *regs, int seg_reg_idx)
> >  		case INAT_SEG_REG_GS:
> >  			return vm86regs->gs;
> >  		case INAT_SEG_REG_IGNORE:
> > -			/* fall through */
> >  		default:
> >  			return -EINVAL;
> >  		}
> > @@ -386,7 +384,6 @@ static short get_segment_selector(struct pt_regs *regs, int seg_reg_idx)
> >  		 */
> >  		return get_user_gs(regs);
> >  	case INAT_SEG_REG_IGNORE:
> > -		/* fall through */
> >  	default:
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> 
> What's the logic for those two to not get a fallthrough; marker?

consecutive case labels do not need one.