Re: [PATCH] nfs: remove incorrect fallthrough label

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Sep 15 2020 - 19:29:53 EST


On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 15:57 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> There is no case after the default from which to fallthrough to. Clang
> will error in this case (unhelpfully without context, see link below)
> and GCC will with -Wswitch-unreachable.
>
> The previous commit should have just removed the comment.
[]
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
[]
> @@ -889,7 +889,6 @@ static struct nfs_server *nfs_try_mount_request(struct fs_context *fc)
> default:
> if (rpcauth_get_gssinfo(flavor, &info) != 0)
> continue;
> - fallthrough;

My preference would be to convert the fallthrough
to a break here so if someone ever adds another
label after default: for any reason, the code would
still work as expected.

> }
>