Re: [PATCH] mips/oprofile: Fix fallthrough placement

[Gustavo A. R. S. <gu...@em...>]

On 8/21/20 03:46, He Zhe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/21/20 3:48 PM, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:54:40PM +0800, zh...@wi... wrote:
>>> From: He Zhe <zh...@wi...>
>>>
>>> We want neither
>>> "
>>> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h:201:41: warning: statement will never
>>> be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
>>>   201 | # define fallthrough __attribute__((__fallthrough__))
>>>       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> "
>>> nor
>>> "
>>> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h:201:41: warning: attribute
>>> 'fallthrough' not preceding a case label or default label
>>>   201 | # define fallthrough __attribute__((__fallthrough__))
>>>       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> "
>>>
>>> It's not worth adding one more macro. Let's simply place the fallthrough
>>> in between the expansions.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zh...@wi...>
>> there is already another patch for the problem, which I've applied
>> to mips-fixes.
> 
> You mean the below one?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?h=mips-fixes&id=5900acb374fe2f4f42bbcb2c84db64f582d917a1
> 
> That patch handles the first warning in my commit log but does not handle the
> second one which is introduced since gcc v10.1.0 commit 6c80b1b56dec
> ("Make more bad uses of fallthrough attribute into pedwarns.").
> 

This is true.

Thomas, please apply this patch instead of mine. Also, consider adding
the Fixes tag and CC stable due to the non-executable code error, and
my Reviewed-by:

Fixes: c9b029903466 ("MIPS: Use fallthrough for arch/mips")
Cc: st...@vg...
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gus...@ke...>

Thanks
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Gustavo