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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2020-08-11 18:35:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-12 10:58:00 -0700
commitef3c005c0eb07a60949191bc6ee407d5f43cc502 (patch)
treefa732f9a2a453b0a2c18b52254fb03fc3020a2c2 /scripts
parent1a3dcf2e6b35faa1176b9cd8200094fbce16ba19 (diff)
checkpatch: remove missing switch/case break test
This test doesn't work well and newer compilers are much better at emitting this warning. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Cambda Zhu <cambda@linux.alibaba.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7e25090c79f6a69d502ab8219863300790192fe2.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl25
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 114af54c3194..2cbeae6d9aee 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6543,31 +6543,6 @@ sub process {
}
}
-# check for case / default statements not preceded by break/fallthrough/switch
- if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s+(?:$Ident|$Constant)\s*|default):/) {
- my $has_break = 0;
- my $has_statement = 0;
- my $count = 0;
- my $prevline = $linenr;
- while ($prevline > 1 && ($file || $count < 3) && !$has_break) {
- $prevline--;
- my $rline = $rawlines[$prevline - 1];
- my $fline = $lines[$prevline - 1];
- last if ($fline =~ /^\@\@/);
- next if ($fline =~ /^\-/);
- next if ($fline =~ /^.(?:\s*(?:case\s+(?:$Ident|$Constant)[\s$;]*|default):[\s$;]*)*$/);
- $has_break = 1 if ($rline =~ /fall[\s_-]*(through|thru)/i);
- next if ($fline =~ /^.[\s$;]*$/);
- $has_statement = 1;
- $count++;
- $has_break = 1 if ($fline =~ /\bswitch\b|\b(?:break\s*;[\s$;]*$|exit\s*\(\b|return\b|goto\b|continue\b)/);
- }
- if (!$has_break && $has_statement) {
- WARN("MISSING_BREAK",
- "Possible switch case/default not preceded by break or fallthrough comment\n" . $herecurr);
- }
- }
-
# check for /* fallthrough */ like comment, prefer fallthrough;
my @fallthroughs = (
'fallthrough',