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

Joe Perches
2020-09-09T21:09:32Z

On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:55 -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> 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.

It does look odd to me too.

It's also just a test module though so the
code isn't particularly crucial.

Herbert/David? thoughts?