Re: [PATCH -next] hwmon: (smpro-hwmon) Add missing break in smpro_is_visible()

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Oct 27 2022 - 17:05:08 EST


On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 12:52:38PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
>
> drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c:378:2: error: unannotated fall-through between switch labels [-Werror,-Wimplicit-fallthrough]
> default:
> ^
> drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c:378:2: note: insert 'break;' to avoid fall-through
> default:
> ^
> break;
> 1 error generated.
>
> Clang is a little more pedantic than GCC, which does not warn when
> falling through to a case that is just break or return. Clang's version
> is more in line with the kernel's own stance in deprecated.rst, which
> states that all switch/case blocks must end in either break,
> fallthrough, continue, goto, or return. Add the missing break to silence
> the warning.
>
> Fixes: a87456864cbb ("hwmon: Add Ampere's Altra smpro-hwmon driver")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1751
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c
> index ee54e21c2c12..667e88b6bae5 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.c
> @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ static umode_t smpro_is_visible(const void *data, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
> return 0;
> break;
> }
> + break;

The alignment of the break; statement above is also bad, and a default:
for switch (attr) is missing.

Guenter

> default:
> break;
> }
>
> base-commit: 0ffb687b6508c36a17b99bdaf014b38532404182
> --
> 2.38.1
>