Re: [trivial PATCH] treewide: Convert switch/case fallthrough; to break;

Keith Busch
2020-09-09T20:55:58Z

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 01:06:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> diff --git a/crypto/tcrypt.c b/crypto/tcrypt.c
> index eea0f453cfb6..8aac5bc60f4c 100644
> --- a/crypto/tcrypt.c
> +++ b/crypto/tcrypt.c
> @@ -2464,7 +2464,7 @@ static int do_test(const char *alg, u32 type, u32 mask, int m, u32 num_mb)
> test_hash_speed("streebog512", sec,
> generic_hash_speed_template);
> if (mode > 300 && mode < 400) break;
> - fallthrough;
> + break;
> case 399:
> break;

Just imho, this change makes the preceding 'if' look even more
pointless. Maybe the fallthrough was a deliberate choice? Not that my
opinion matters here as I don't know this module, but it looked a bit
odd to me.